Psalm 6
1 O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.
2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
3 My soul also is greatly troubled; But You, O Lord — how long?
4 Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake!
5 For in death there is no remembrance of You; In the grave who will give You thanks?
6 I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my enemies.
8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer.
10 Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled; Let them turn back and be ashamed SUDDENLY.
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What a comfort to know that the “man after God’s own heart” had some pretty long nights filled with dreadful tears and pain! To know that even one of God’s most favored servants found himself begging God for healing and restoration! His honest expression of the countenance of his soul seems very recognizable to me: “I am weak”, “My bones are troubled”, “My soul also is greatly troubled”, “How long?”, “My eyes waste away because of grief”! Sound familiar? I know it does to me. It’s been a long winter but the season is about to change! I woke up this morning with a stirring in my spirit and the Lord saying, “The recession is over!” Our lives have fallen into a true resemblance of the economic crisis that our society has been in. We have taken on the form of being in a spiritual recession!!! Hopeless, without resources, bankrupt, stolen joy, no solutions, the talk of dread & landscapes of death! As I read Ps. 6 I found a word in there that has somehow been forgotten & somehow escaped my vocabulary! SUDDENLY! V10 LET ALL MY ENEMIES BE ASHAMED AND GREATLY TROUBLED; LET THEM TURN BACK AND BE ASHAMED SUDDENLY!!!! Ezekiel was facing a valley of dry bones when God told him to prophecy life. Ezek 37:7-8 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and SUDDENLY a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. The believers were in the upper room or better said the “waiting room” waiting on the promise! Acts 2:2-3 And SUDDENLY there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Paul and Silas began to sing songs in their prison cell during the midnight hour! Acts 16:26-27 SUDDENLY there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. I don’t know just when “SUDDENLY” will be! Wouldn’t it be nice to know the exact hour and day? But what I do know is this,
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us ,not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Hold On, Be Strong, Let your faith arise in the midnight……because SUDDENLY is coming soon!
