# 17 2019. Dev. Psalm 61:2 The Rock! Read all of Ps. 61 The purpose of these devotionals is to draw Gremar and I closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Ps. 61:2 “From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Ps. 61, is one of four Psalms praying for protection, for refuge, for relief from the current situation. If these are psalms of David as they appear to be, I it has been suggested that he wrote these prayers during the time of Absalom’s rebellion.
David is overwhelmed, he cries out to God, “hear my cry, O God; Listen to my prayer”. We identify with this prayer more then a few times in our Christian lives, we are overwhelmed with life, with sin, with evil, with rejection. We identify with the innocent people killed at worship on Easter Sunday. We ask ourselves – where is God? Like David, we call “from the ends of the earth”, from a bad place, a place that seems far from God. We despair, our “hearts grow faint”. We have no place to go Lord Jesus, but to you. “lead me (us) to the rock that is higher than I”, higher than we are, the rock of Jesus.
God, we have hope because you have always been there for us, “my refuge, a strong tower against the foe”. Make no mistake, we are in a spiritual battle, those who follow Jesus are under siege all over the world, including our own county.
We all want to belong, to be protected, to feel God’s presence, to “take refuge in the shelter of your wings”, Lord Jesus! That is Jesus’ desire as well, Jesus, speaking to his own people: “how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing” (Mt. 23:37).
We are blessed, and like David we have “the heritage of those who fear your name”. Speaking for my wife and I we come from a long heritage of followers of Jesus, church attendance and years of reading God’s Word, leading us to the Rock that is the living Jesus. Thanks be to God!
In the power of the Holy Spirit David ends this prayer with a messianic reference: “Increase the days of the king’s life, his years for many generations. 7 May he be enthroned in God’s presence forever;” Our God reigns and Jesus is alive and among us! We thank Him!
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