# 14 2021 Dev. Psalm 109:21,22. God’s Care! Read all of Psalm 109 first. 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 109:21,22 “But you, Sovereign Lord, help me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.”
Ps. 101 starts a new series of 10 Psalms. This series is like a Psalm within the Psalms. The series is complementary from front to back: Ps. 101 corresponds with 110 and 102 with 109 and so on. Psalms 105 and 106 are the center of this 10 Psalm series.
Ps.109 is closely connected to Ps.102: both are Psalms of David, both appear to be “imprecatory” Psalms, but 102 is titled “A prayer of an afflicted man…”
Vs. 1-5 is the opening request laying out the conspiracy against him. He appears to cry out, how can this be? “but I am a man of prayer”. As followers of Jesus we are able to identify with the Psalmist; we are people of prayer, we worship, we serve, we do good and desire peace. Yet, there are times in our lives we are overwhelmed with sorrow, with Illness, with conflict and we do not understand why. God’s ways are not our ways but like the Psalmist we continue to lean on our God.
Vs. 6-20 is a long accusation tirade in the first person directed to one person ending with, “May this be the Lords payment to my accusers…” It may also be a long list of what is happening to the Psalmist or a list of appealing to God to find comfort in the thought of retribution. At times of conflict, opposition, a broken marriage, or relationship we may be tempted to find relief in this way. But God’s way is: “be still before the Lord and wait!”
In vs. 21-25 the psalmist comes back to requesting for help: “Sovereign Lord help me… out of the goodness of your love…” But he is still very concerned about himself, “I am poor, I fade away, I am shaken off like a locust, I am the object of scorn…” We tend to concentrate on ourselves in time of conflict.
In vs. 26-31 the Psalmist request comes all the way back to putting God in the center: “It is your hand” Lord, “May you bless…” Along with the psalmist, when in conflict, we also go through the stages in this psalm but in the end like the psalmist we need to come to this place: “With my mouth I will greatly extol the Lord; in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him. For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save their lives from those who would condemn them.” Praise the Lord, we can count on God’s grace, comfort and protection!
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