# 37 2019 Dev. Psalm 71: Our Rock! Read all of Ps. 71. 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. 71:3 “Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go;
give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.”
This is the third Psalm of this series with the main overall theme of Hope. The Psalm is a prayer, a request for relief of opposition, real or imagined. The Psalm is also a complaint, a lament and an expectation of salvation. “For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, … From birth I have relied on you…I will ever praise you….you are my strong refuge…Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone”. The Psalmist is putting his whole life into God’s hands.
If we forsake living in our little circle and are living in the real world, we identify with this Psalm and with the Psalms as a whole. The events of the last months: senseless killings in this country and abroad, unbelievable destructive weather events, unprecedented miss-information, persecutions of all religious groups, all this is enough to question our hope. People ask: where is God in all this? But that is not a question that followers of Jesus should be asking. No! our God reigns! Amen?
We can’t claim to understand completely but we know that God is in control spiritually and physically of our personal lives, of our country, of the world, and of the whole universe. This assurance is not blind faith, it is simply faith: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11).
In old age we ask what older people have asked for millenniums: What is this world coming to? In such times as these we need to hold onto verse 3: “Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress” That rock is Jesus! That is our prayer of hope and comfort! Thanks be to God!
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