Psalm 30

What is the source of our security?  Is it our possessions? Our abilities? Our jobs? Our families? Our relationships?  God gives us all of these, but they should not be the source of our security.  David, a man after God’s own heart, learned this.

David knew that God had chosen him to be the king (1 Samuel 16:1-13). He knew God had established him (2 Samuel 7:4-17). Yet he, like us, at one time got off base as to the real source of his security. In Psalm 30:6 he writes, “As for me, I said in my prosperity, ‘I shall never be moved.’ By your favor, O Lord, you have established me as a strong mountain.”

David had it made.  He was the king.  He knew God had established him as the most important man in the kingdom.  Though he recognized God had established him, what had shifted and become the source of his security?  His prosperity.  He wrote, “In my prosperity, I shall never be moved,”

Because God loved David, He helped David see that it wasn’t his prosperity that was his source of security, but God. To do this, He “hid His face” from David (Psalm 30:7).  David recognized that something was wrong in his relationship with God, and he was dismayed.  What a sensitive man! He walked so closely with God that he knew when things were not right.  He wanted his relationship with God open, close and communicative.  So what did he do? 

First, David recognized that an open, honest, relationship with God was the most important and critical value in his life. Secondly, he cried out to God, asking God to help him.  And what did God do?  He responded, just like He will when we cry to Him.  The relationship was restored!

Are we sensitive to the presence of God?  Do we know when there is a break in our relationship with Him? Is an open honest relationship with Him our top priority?   Are we willing to cry out to Him?  Are we then willing to deal with the area that He reveals needs to be changed?

David leaned that his security was in God, not his prosperity or even being established by God. That restored relationship turned his mourning into dancing.

May our sensitivity and obedience to God result in turning from our wrong priorities to God’s priorities.  May that obedience turn our mourning into dancing.  

Praying for obedience and the resulting joy,

Lisa