March 5, 2016
Worship: Hear Me When I Cry by me
Hear
Me When I Cry
Hear me when I cry
Hear me when I pray
Hear me when I speak
Hear me when I say
All I want is You,
Lord
All I want is You
All I want is You,
Lord
All I want is You
And as I cry
and as I pray
And as I long for
You every day
And as I walk
And as I live
And as I seek for
You, my life to give
All I want is You,
Lord
All I want is You
All I want is You,
Lord
All I want is You
Witness:
These
are unsettling times. War and famine abound. Politics are taking a front seat
by many, though often with an eye focused on celebrity, coarseness and a stick
it to the establishment mentality, but all this at the expense of truth and
ethics. In my own life, there is the sense of absence because my wife is not
present. I am going to visit her this coming Monday and that is very unsettling
to me. I don’t know what to expect after a year of absence and actual
interaction in person with her. I am tired continually, which adds to the
disturbance in my soul. I could easily slip into despair and depression if it
were not for the Lord whom I seek daily, desire continually, and in whom I
constantly delight.
Lord
may my simple song above
lead
me continually to Your Love.
May
I be filled with Your strength and peace
and
may my praise for you never cease. Amen!
As
I typed this prayer a song was playing and as the words began to filter through
I realized that it complimented what I was saying. Here are the lyrics to the
song:
Praise Him in the morning, praise Him in the evening
Praise Him when you're smiling, praise Him when
you're breaking
Praise Him in the sun and praise Him in the
starlight
Praise Him every season, praise Him through the
dark times
[Chorus]
Celebrate, celebrate
Shout it from the mountaintops
Celebrate, celebrate
Even with a broken heart
Till dawn awakes, we'll sing Your praise,
dancing in the dark
For all our days our song will say, "Lord
how great You are!"
Praise Him with your hands and praise Him with
your face down
Praise Him with the trumpet, praise Him with a
loud sound
Heaven is a party, join the celebration
Come on everybody, time to start dancing!
(Lyrics abridged)
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WORD:
Ps 25:1-3
25 Toa you, O LORD,
I lift up my soul;
2 in you I trust, O
my God.
Do not let me be put to
shame,
nor let my enemies
triumph over me.
3 No one whose hope
is in you
will ever be put to
shame,
but they will be put to
shame
who are treacherous
without excuse.
NIV
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Ps 25:1-3
25 To you, O LORD, Io lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you
Ip trust;
q let me not be put
to shame;
r let not my
enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed,s none who wait for
you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who
aret wantonlyu treacherous.
ESV
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Ps 25:1-3
25 1 O LORD, I
give my life to you.
2 I trust in you,
my God!
Do not let me be disgraced,
or let my enemies rejoice
in my defeat.
3 No one who trusts
in you will ever be disgraced,
but disgrace comes to
those who try to deceive others.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by
Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All
rights reserved.
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Ps 25:1-3
25 To You, O LORD, I alift up my soul.
2 O my God, in You aI trust,
Do not let me bbe ashamed;
Do not let my cenemies exult over me.
3 Indeed, anone of those who
wait for You will be ashamed;
1Those who bdeal treacherously without
cause will be ashamed
NASU
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We
have seen from the previous day that this is a psalm of lament. Specifically, it is called a psalm of
individual lament. The Expositor’s Bible Commentary says, “This is an individual lament with strong
similarities to a prayer of confidence, especially vv. 1-3, 8-15.”
(The
Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 5, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, Copyright 1991, p. 226)
While
many do not consider it as part of those psalms listed as penitential psalms, there
are some similarities which make some include it as one.
List of Penitential Psalms (7): Psalms 6, 32, 38, 51, 102,
130, and 143. To these, I would also add
Psalm 25 and 39. The Penitential Psalms, also called the Psalms of Confession,
is a name designation given by Cassiodorus in the 6th c. A.D. in his
Exposition of the Psalms for these
seven psalms. They refer to those psalms that are especially expressive of
sorrow for sin. Four of these
psalms were known as “penitential psalms” by St. Augustine in the early 400s.
The name belonged originally to the fifty-first Psalm (Miserere), which
was recited at the close of daily morning service in the primitive Church.
dailyqt.org/docs/Psalms_Lesson6.doc
The Naves Topical Bible includes this Psalm in its list:
Ps 6
Ps 25
Ps 32
Ps 38
Ps 51
Ps 102
Ps 130
Ps 143
David
is looking at his present situation as well his past and it depresses him, so
he turns to the Lord in confidence, confession,
and contrition. This is where I must begin when depression seeks to control me
and confine me to useless anxiety and the empty feeling of hopelessness. As a
side note, this is where I must start when I am full of self-confidence and
conceit.
The
problem too often with the believer, struggling with anxiety and depression
over circumstances and personal sin, is a focus on the problem and not on the
One Who is the solution. Notice I said, “One Who is the solution” and
not “One Who has the solution”. Certainly, the latter is true, but it is
only true because of the former. It is true because it is tied up in the very
nature and being of the Omnipotent (all powerful), Omniscient (all knowing), Omnipresent
(everywhere present), Omnisapient (all
wise), and Omnicaritative (all loving) God. When we place the latter before the
former it is nothing more than idolatry and self-centeredness. This is also
true if we look at the solution without relying on the source of the solution.
When
I refuse to consider the source of my deliverance from anxiety and hopelessness
and doubt and depression; I become nothing more than an “unbelieving believer”
and practice, albeit subtle, a form of idolatry as well. David’s response to
his anxiety and depression and hopelessness is a confidence in the source of
his deliverance from such things. It comes in the form of worship:
To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul;
in you I trust, O my
God.
Ps 25:1-2 NIV
We
will be delivered when we worship the Lord. When we give ourselves to Him; when
we lift our souls in dependence,
devotion, and delight to the Lord our Savior. When we focus on Him and not our
problems. However, there is another subtle danger, which I alluded previously,
of seeing the Lord and the worship of the Lord as the means to an end – i.e.
our deliverance from anxiety, hopelessness, doubt, despair and depression. That
is idolatry and self-serving. We must rather see that our present circumstances
are the Lord’s means to His end, that is to the praise of the glory of His name
(Isa. 48:10-11; Psalm 43:5)
There then are two dangers we
face in our circumstances:
In our afflictions, there are two especial
dangers -- that of despising them, as if they came fortuitously; and the danger
of being encumbered and weighed down by them, looking at the circumstances, and
not at the God of the circumstances.
(from The Biblical Illustrator Copyright ©
2002, 2003, 2006 Ages Software, Inc. and Biblesoft, Inc.)
There is one solution:
The believer has but one remedy. The world
talks of its many remedies, but all are ineffective. A general view of God, in
the power of faith and by the power of the Holy Ghost, lifts up the soul.
Nothing so lifts us up against soul trouble as when we are enabled to say,
"O my God, I trust in Thee." Is there anything above God's promises?
Yes, God Himself is above His promises, and the very substance of them. Our
trust is in Him.
(from The Biblical Illustrator Copyright ©
2002, 2003, 2006 Ages Software, Inc. and Biblesoft, Inc.
When we lift our soul, we will
be lifted up. James says something like this in his epistle: “Draw near to God,
and he will draw near to you. (James 4:8 ESV)
When we lift our souls to God,
the shackles of our
anxiety and despair
fall away.
I would be remiss
if I didn’t include the ultimate means to the Glory of God if you have not done
so yet, and that is to repent and believe the good news of the salvation and
eternal life in Jesus Christ (John 3:16, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23)
You take what is
And you make it beautiful
When love floods in
We're restored forever more
With breath that brings the dead to life
With words that pierce the dark with light
Only by the blood are we set free.
With mercy strong to carry shame
And nail it to a tree You alone
Hold the power to redeem.
No guilt competes
With innocence crucified
No grave can hold what your grace has justified
With breath that brings the dead to life
With words that pierce the dark with light
Only by the blood are we set free.
With mercy strong to carry shame
And nail it to a tree you alone
Hold the power to redeem
Rejoice oh child of God
Lift your eyes to see
With every morning light
Again we are redeemed
Rejoice oh child of God
Lift your eyes to see
With every morning light
Again we are redeemed
With breath it brings the
dead to life
With words that pierce the dark with light
Only by the blood are we set free.
With mercy strong to carry shame
And nail it to a tree you alone
Hold the power to redeem.
Oh you alone, hold the power to redeem
Oh you alone, hold the power to redeem
Songwriters
PAUL MABURY, JUSTIN EBACH, LAUREN DAIGLE
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