“But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. 6. I will sing unto the Lord, because He hath dealt bountifully with me.”
When I read this text this morning I looked it up in my CouchPotatoRedux file, or archive, and to my surprise, I have never written an article about it. I am about to correct that mistake. The text gives us three thing that we need to remember that will make our relationship with Jesus and, consequently, with each other. Here it is: “But I have trusted in thy mercy…” Do we really believe that God is merciful toward us, loves us and wants the best for us? You believe this if you trust in His mercy, His “steadfast love.” Do you trust that this is true whether things are going good or bad in your life? People fall out with God because He doesn’t make everything good for them. He uses the bad and the good that happens to us in life to teach us about His love and care. This is a difficult thing to do, but if we really want to live an effective Christian life, we just have to trust that God is working in our lives for the best. I could give you personal illustration after illustration about this, but there is nothing that I can write that will convince you until you actually believe that God’s love for you is steadfast and that you can trust Him to be merciful. “My heart shall rejoice in your salvation…’ I have heard it said that some people get religion, but they get over it. That would be true if one got “religion” but when he, or she, gets saved, you do not get over that. Notice that David wrote: “My heart shall rejoice…” Real salvation is a matter of the heart and it causes rejoicing. We don’t go around shouting “glory, glory” all of the time, but our hearts are rejoicing because we have a dynamic and eternal relationship with Jesus Christ. This means that in our hearts we have accepted that God is merciful and that we can trust Him to take us through, around or over anything that we meet in life. Is your heart settled on the salvation that Jesus made possible at Calvary? If so, rejoice and be glad. (Why wouldn’t we?) “I will sing unto the Lord, because He hath dealt bountifully with me…” David trusted, rejoiced and sang because He knew that God had been good to him. This is not a “name it and claim it” claim. Just the fact that Jesus invites us into a relationship with Him should put a song on our hearts. A lot of the world’s Christians are poor, but they rejoice and sing because Jesus is enough. In our “land of plenty” this is sometimes difficult to understand, but even here it is true that Jesus is enough. Thankfully, God does not require that have a good singing voice because He hears the song on our hearts. Do you trust in God’s mercy? Do you rejoice in His salvation? Do you sing because of His goodness to you? Bro, Joe
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