Title Psalm 69 (2010.8.12)
Contents
Title: please answer me
Main text: (Psalm 69:1~36)
Hymns: 365 chapters. a person with a troubled heart
Date: August 12, 2010 (Thursday) 5 am
Venue: Jeonju Yebut Church Small Worship Room
The text we read today is the content of David's earnest prayer to God in his distress. The pitiful groan that can be heard here is the cry of “Answer me.” Success and failure in the lives of those of our faith is, in a word, a question of whether communication with God is good or not. The bigger problem is that we care so much about our relationships with people, but sometimes fail to recognize the seriousness of our relationship with God.
I hope that we can all communicate well with the Lord through these words today.
1. Is communication with God going well? (14~15)
Here, the words 'the swamp', 'deep water', or 'Do not let a large pit open their mouth and swallow me up and close their mouth' are all sorry for the obstacles that stand between you and God. In fact, we see that the key to the success or failure of all the characters in the Bible comes from their relationship with God. Therefore, our most important task is whether we can communicate well with God.
Our problem today is the same. Even if the situation and situation are difficult and frustrating, as long as you have the assurance that God is hearing and answering your prayers, any hardships and difficulties will not become serious despair. However, if everything seems to be prosperous and everything seems to be going well, like Jonah in the stomach of a fish, however, if you are frustrated, the pain of the soul will be regarded as a prison in a luxurious palace, and the sacramental banquet will only be bitter. In any case, it is important to maintain a good relationship with God.
2. God has already prepared a path for perfect fellowship.(16~17)
All human beings who have sinned, without exception, have already become unable to communicate with each other because of the obstacle of sin that has been blocking their relationship with God. And this dreadful sin barrier is bound to be an obstacle to all good things that come from God. The prophet Jeremiah testifies of this. “Your transgressions have dispelled these things, and your sins have prevented the good from coming to you” (Jeremiah 5:25). Sin is always the most serious obstacle between us and the God of glory. Even worse, this obstacle of sin is beyond the reach of human power.
So, in the end, God sent his only begotten Son to fulfill the plan he had made before the foundation of the world to solve this problem in this man's history. Paul said, “He is our peace, who made the two one, and broke down the middle wall, and abolished in his flesh the enmity, that is, the ceremonial law of commandments, that by the two made in him one new He made them to make peace, and to reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, so that enmity was consumed by the cross” (Ephesians 2:14-16).
3. The tool of fellowship given to us is prayer.
Today, the means of communication are very diverse and convenient. Looking at these various tools of communication, we can think of the tools of communication with God. The easiest and most convenient means of communication for human beings is the ‘speech’ given by God. Direct communication with God through our language is above all 'prayer'. However, the Bible warns that there are prayers that open the heavens and prayers that are not heard. Isaiah warns, “When you stretch out your hands, I will cover your eyes, and you will pray a lot, but I will not hear you, for your hands are full of blood” (Isaiah 1:15).
May we become the people of heaven who make good use of prayer, the tool of communication that God has given to all of us.