The Devotional – A look at Psalm 64

Comment: If you are a child of God, you no doubt like to pray to Him. In many ways prayer is much like communicating with your parents, especially your father. Hopefully your dad is/was a good man and easy to talk with, but if he was stern or showed a lack of interest in you and the rest of the family, the stress of conversing with him would prevent a close relationship. Deeds of the flesh would prevail and the deed of faithfulness would be rejected. In this Psalm of David as he is being oppressed by the wicked reveals that God is PERSONAL and MERCIFUL, but in order for us to experience God this way we must be willing to PRAY and MEDITATE with God. That is, we must be willing to CONSIDER God’s answer as we pour out our complaint.

Devotional: Most days of our lives we have a complaint, we always seem busy complaining to God about the enemy. The enemy could be a relative, a friend, co-worker or even our own personal self. Our desires to have things our own way often rub people the wrong way. Sometimes we are charged with wrong doing when our intentions may have been good, but good to what degree? Good for you, good for me or good for someone else, in the end our motivation to do good is often observed as selfish.

We understand that David, King of Israel had international enemies, but he also had enemies with his family, friends and the kingdom staff. He was surrounded by people who sharpened their tongues like a sword and bent their bows to shoot arrows at him with BITTER, backbiting WORDS. We would be extremely naïve to believe that this condition of mankind’s heart was absent in our daily routine of living life before God and man.

Thus, what should we do? Shall we too be bitter, backbiting and rebellious with one another, or can we be different? Yes, yes we can and ought to be DIFFERENT than the rest of the world. Prayer and meditation with God is our PROTECTION. God changes the COURSE of any FEAR we may have of man. David states clearly that God shall shoot at them with ONE arrow, the enemy will suddenly be wounded, they will stumble over their own tongue and the fear of others will drive them away (no one will help them).

Yes, the righteous acts of God’s children, that is those who are clothed in Christ’s Righteousness will be glad in the LORD because they through PRAYER and MEDITATION have learned to trust God. The joy and rejoicing of the saints of God will glorify God as they see God answering pray. The wicked are stopped in their pursuit of perfecting a SHREWD SCHEME as their iniquities are not secret to God. Both the inward thoughts of man and the outward results of man heart (while deep) are very visible to our Creator.