# 11. 2018 Dev. Ps.31:5. God’s Hands! Read all of Ps.31. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Psalm 31: 5 “Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, Lord, my faithful God”.
Ps. 31 is an intense prayer for help and deliverance from opposition from friends and enemies alike. Verses 1 though 5 is the initial request for salvation and confirms again God’s faithfulness. “I have taken refuge in you, deliver me in your righteousness, you are my rock and my fortress”. Verse 5 was quoted by Jesus on the cross and by Stephen at his death, Acts 7:59. The Ps. certainly is about God’s care for his people during times of suffering and opposition at all times and places.
Verses 6-8 are summed up in: “I will be glad and rejoice in your love”. Verses 9-18 are the reasons for David prayer of which the seriousness of it is conveyed in v.13: “For I hear the slander of many; there is ‘terror on every side!’ They conspire against me and plot to take my life”.
Verses 19-24 is David’s praise for God’s love and for God’s care and David encourages God’s people to praise Him: “Love the Lord, be strong and take heart.” How do we read this Psalm and how is it applied to our lives today?
We read this Ps. in light of the New Testament, Jesus and Stephen’s quote and passages like I Pet. 4: 12-19 “Suffering for being Christian”. We completely trust God knowing that Satan uses people to discredit followers of Jesus. Along with Jesus we commit our spirit into God’s hands! Jesus committed His Spirit at His death so that we may live, we then commit our spirit into God’s hands at our death to ourselves and as a result we are kept alive for ever and ever. We are in a spiritual battle, “in you O Lord I (we) take refuge”, the only safe place for us, thank you Lord Jesus!
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