In the first eight verses of Psalm 38, David illustrates how the laws of sowing and reaping were not cancelled back at the Garden of Eden. They describe in painful detail the degree to which he suffers because he didn’t do what he should have, and did do what he shouldn’t have.
We can learn a great lesson from the psalmist: When you’ve sinned, run to the Lord and not from Him! The sooner you realize that He loves you—rather than hates you—you’ll be sprinting in the right direction. Run from Him and experience the torment you thought you were escaping by doing so. Run to Him, and get the peace you thought would never be yours by doing that.
Wanting to run to or from God is one thing, and wanting to just run away is another. When things get tough, the non-tough tend to get going.
As long as we live on this earth, our chances of mortality are 100% (unless raptured first) and with a right relationship with the Lord we should not be running away from death.. As we advance toward death, our bodies deteriorate. This was the truth Moses referred to as the author of Psalm 90).
We know from our personal experiences—and the experiences of others—that God still heals today. We also know from these same sources that God does not always do so, and His not doing so is not necessarily due to anything other than His sovereignty
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We’re told in John 9:3 that when the disciples asked if the man was blind from birth due to his sin or the sin of the parents, Jesus replied, “Neither, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.”
David concludes the psalm –as he does many of them—by agreeing with God about how much of a sinner he is, grateful that God fully extricates him from numerous troubles.
Yes, being delivered out of the hands of almost certain torment is a cause for celebration, and lends itself to its own level of peace—but let me challenge you with something:
As you go about from day to day, purpose in your heart to bring peace to God”s life—and then watch what He does in yours.
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Pss.38—FROM KJV
[1] O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
[2] For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
[3] There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
[4] For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
[5] My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
[6] I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
[7] For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
[8] I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
[9] Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
[10] My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
[11] My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
[12] They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
[13] But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
[14] Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
[15] For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
[16] For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
[17] For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
[18] For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
[19] But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
[20] They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
[21] Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
[22] Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
[2] For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
[3] There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
[4] For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
[5] My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
[6] I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
[7] For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
[8] I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
[9] Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
[10] My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
[11] My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
[12] They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
[13] But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
[14] Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
[15] For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
[16] For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
[17] For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
[18] For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
[19] But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
[20] They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
[21] Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
[22] Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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