The Devotional – Beginning a look at Psalm 56

The Devotional – Beginning a look at Psalm 56

Comment: If someone would ask us; “Do we live in the Light of the LORD?” if we were truthful, what would be our answer? Let me say up front… the Psalm writers did! Now we do not need to be a psalm writer, but it would help if we were a Psalm reader. For years I ignored the Psalms thinking that these were not important. Psalms to me were full of mourning and wrath, well who needs more mourning and wrath in one’s day? Is there not enough complaining daily and why be reminded of the complaints of the Old Testament saints! If this is your mindset or if there are other reasons why you do not read the Psalms let me say “O bosh!” God forbid such thinking. Wrap your soul around a Psalm or two each day, your soul will rejoice, it will be comforted and you will be able to meditate on Him who has redeemed you in time and is preparing you for eternity.

Devotional: Psalm 56 – I believe that there is not a day in our secular world that the saints of God are not tormented. We do not have to wait for a foreign enemy to overcome our homeland to be tormented, remember if you are saved by the grace of God and if your faith in God is being enriched by the Word of God then the land you live in is “enemy territory”.

Of the saints of the past (considering the old and new testaments) we can read from Hebrews 11:13-16, all of the dead saints of the past believed the promises of God and they were assured in that while seeing the results from afar, embraced the promises by faith and willing confessed these promises to us that in believing the promises, they were now STRANGERS AND PILGRAMS on the earth. If you know the Truth, then like these saints who have gone before us, our HOMELAND is now foreign to us and we are to be looking as they did; that is to desire a better country, a heavenly abode. 

Now note; Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them! Does this mean that God could be ashamed to be identified with us? I believe that it is clear that He would be for some and it would be those who are saved but have not “overcome” the world’s torment. Now if you do not understand, hang in there and I will seek to explain with the help of the Holy Spirit. If He is not in this, then there is little reason for you to read these devotionals.

I will be picking up our discussion tomorrow morning on Psalm 56, presently I am waiting to be hooked up to the internet. I do not like to use WIFI since at the moment for me to do so it is open to the public; tomorrow all should be back to normal.