Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
It's been three millennia now that David's hymn of praise has been singing its song to win souls to salvation--Psalm 40: "I waited patiently for the Lord ..." he says (just telling people what the Lord has done for you is soul-winning in itself!).
Imagine the joy that David will have in God's eternal kingdom as people come by to tell him what a blessing his story has been to them! He will sit there in joy as countless people file by to tell him.
He "waited patiently," he says. He had no adverb to use with the meaning of "patiently," so he simply wrote, "waited, and waited, and waited."
He was in a mud-hole with no place for his feet to find solid rock to stand on; and he was sinking lower and lower. He probably thought of Psalm 130: "Out of the depths have I cried to You, O Lord. ... .Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications" (vss. 1, 2).
But literal mud-holes aren't David's concern, bad as they are; he was thinking of the mud-holes of sinful guilt that were torture to him. For example, his sin with Bathsheba that was on his mind as he wrote his famous Psalm 51: "Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, ... Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You" (vss. 11-13).
Imagine the joy David will have in God's eternal kingdom as people tell him how his Psalms brought them to conversion and atonement with God!
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: February 25, 2009.
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