David is being hunted down and his life is on a razor’s edge. What would a prayer and a song look like for you if you wrote it?
David acknowledges his “whole being is shaken with terror” (Ps 6:3).
He asks of the Lord to not
Discipline him in his anger if this is what is happening, but rather that God would be gracious. David is terrified and he has been running for awhile. In his suffering he asks, “How long, O Lord?”
Then he reminds the Lord that the dead do not remember him or can thank him. And this is the view of the afterlife at this time.
David is weary from all the groaning and weeping. His eyes are swollen from all of it and he looks like an old man.
Then he prays his enemies away from him, because he has a clear sense that the Lord has heard him:
“Depart from me, all evildoers, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping. The LORD has heard my plea for help; All my enemies will be ashamed and shake with terror; they will turn back and suddenly be disgraced” (Ps 7:8-10).
David writes on things that we can certainly relate to.
- God’s deliverance often seems slow in coming.
- We wonder how long we will weep before he acts.
- We are scared and exhausted.
Though a modern man might try to “be strong” and not cry, David is just raw. Raw before the Lord and raw before others.
But there comes a moment when David senses in his spirit that God has heard his prayer. I’ve had that happen before even in my own life. Sometimes you just know in your knower that God has heard and will answer, in His time.
This is the faith of David. He knew the story God had written for him wasn’t finished just yet.
