Title: What in Your Life is the Most Frustrating?
Text:
Psalm 142:4 (ESV)
4 Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.
Observation:
I love reading the Psalms for in them I find encouragement. This morning I came to my computer to write, and our focal verse caused me to pause.
The one word that captured my attention was recognition. Notice that David said that nobody took notice of him.
Think about this. God took notice of him because He had been told that he would become the king of Israel. Yet, Saul, the current king that God had rejected was angry with him, and was out to kill him.
Have you ever experienced the feeling that David felt; that nobody recognizes you? On another occasion the Psalmist expressed it this way.
Psalm 69:20 (ESV)
20 Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
The encouragement is this; David never lost faith in God. When you know God, being ignored by others does not matter as much. You can always find refuge in the Lord. David called upon the Lord, and so can you.
Psalm 142:5 (ESV)
5 I cry to you, O LORD; I say, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."
The world will frustrate and disappoint you, but God will never fail to recognize, and provide refuge for those who come to Him, and cry out to Him.
Prayer:
Father God, hallowed be Your name. Father, I am so grateful that the name of the Lord is a strong tower, and that the righteous can run to it, and find recognition and refuge. Father, draw us nearer to You. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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