# 35 2019 Dev. Psalm 70:4. The Lord is Great! Read all of Ps. 70. 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. 70:4 “But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who long for your saving help always say, “The Lord is great!”
Ps. 70 is the second of four related Psalms and is titled: A Petition. The Psalmist is petitioning God to intervene into his life in order to save his life from the enemy. The Psalm is short but is a desperate prayer for help. The Psalm is framed in two urgent requests; “hasten, O God to save me” and “come quickly to me, O God”. He is overwhelmed, but in verse four he falls back on the anticipation of hope, on his expectation of salvation and he praises God; “The Lord is great”!
That really is what following Jesus is all about; hope and expectation. Every one of us are overwhelmed at one time or an other. We are not physically threatened but we have spiritual enemies, as Peter tells us: “Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion”. Sometimes we are overwhelmed by illness, or other setbacks also brought on by Satan. God does not bring evil on His followers. God is completely sovereign and that is why we pray with hope and expectation. But God answers our prayers in His own way and in His time but He always answers. Along with the psalmist we say: “come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer. But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; The lord is great”!
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