Teth - In this segment of our study affliction is presented as having a redemptive side. The Psalmist went astray much the same as we sometimes do. When life is good and all goes well, God gets the leftovers of our time, energy and devotion. When clouds darken our horizons and troubles slash jagged tears in our lowering skies, we need no reminders to cry out to God and seek his favor. Trouble can be beneficial if it results in renewed closeness and fellowship with God.
In humility the writer expresses gratitude to God for his goodness. When we are tested to the breaking point we cannot say God is good unless we are fully submitted to his will. When we are in pain we want the discomfort over as quickly as possibly. In God’s process pain has purpose. We look at the pain and he looks more at what he wants to bring out of us, the destiny he wants manifested in our life. It takes heat, pressure and time to transform coal to diamonds. Guess what gets the absolute best out of the child of God? If you said heat, pressure and time, you are correct.
We may never hear God as an audible voice. But as we study the Law, as we meditate on the precepts, as we attempt to pattern our lives according to the will of the Father, his character becomes formed in us. What an amazing act of mercy! God chooses us to be conduits of love, mercy and justice, so the all world may know him.
©8/2010
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