I love David's psalms - mostly because even though there are many things in his life that might cause him concern or actually seek to do him damage nonetheless he puts his trust in the Lord. Here in these two verses he has done just that. If you look at verse 13 he says that he knows that there are many who slander him, that are plotting together to do him harm, actually to take his life but he has chosen to put his trust in the Lord because he knows that his times, that is his days and all the events of them are in the hand of, under the control of his God.
That's where we must get to - this total understanding that it is the Lord who controls our lives - that He allows only what will ultimately be good for us - that He is at work every moment bringing beauty from ashes and enabling us to see, to actually see His glory as we open the eyes of our understanding. This takes practice of course - we are not born with those eyes rather we must continually seek to improve the eyes of our faith - to see the unseen and to know the reality of the invisible.
All of us who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, who have been born again, each a new creation, who have entered eternity but do not yet see it with our human eyes - each of us must train our spiritual senses to lay hold of that for which we have already been laid hold of by Christ. We must immerse ourselves in His Word, let Him speak to us through it and then reply with our questions and doubts and cares - we must practice the art of conversation with the One who is the Word - the One who spoke and the world came into existence and who right now, this very moment is upholding that same world by the word of His power. We must make it our business to get to know the One who has saved us and who is preparing us moment by moment for an eternity with Him. As we do this we will find that we are able to actually see His glory - we will like Moses, Ezekiel, Isaiah and John be able to say we beheld His glory and the vision of that glory actually transformed our lives.
We need a vision of glory that will never leave us, that will flood our minds and our hearts - filling the deepest parts of our innermost being so that we are able to live moment by moment in the glorious knowledge that we belong to the One who is the rock, our fortress, our strong tower and our strength and in that knowledge go out with His glorious life giving gospel into a world that is blind and desperate and lost.
That's where we must get to - this total understanding that it is the Lord who controls our lives - that He allows only what will ultimately be good for us - that He is at work every moment bringing beauty from ashes and enabling us to see, to actually see His glory as we open the eyes of our understanding. This takes practice of course - we are not born with those eyes rather we must continually seek to improve the eyes of our faith - to see the unseen and to know the reality of the invisible.
All of us who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, who have been born again, each a new creation, who have entered eternity but do not yet see it with our human eyes - each of us must train our spiritual senses to lay hold of that for which we have already been laid hold of by Christ. We must immerse ourselves in His Word, let Him speak to us through it and then reply with our questions and doubts and cares - we must practice the art of conversation with the One who is the Word - the One who spoke and the world came into existence and who right now, this very moment is upholding that same world by the word of His power. We must make it our business to get to know the One who has saved us and who is preparing us moment by moment for an eternity with Him. As we do this we will find that we are able to actually see His glory - we will like Moses, Ezekiel, Isaiah and John be able to say we beheld His glory and the vision of that glory actually transformed our lives.
We need a vision of glory that will never leave us, that will flood our minds and our hearts - filling the deepest parts of our innermost being so that we are able to live moment by moment in the glorious knowledge that we belong to the One who is the rock, our fortress, our strong tower and our strength and in that knowledge go out with His glorious life giving gospel into a world that is blind and desperate and lost.
