The David Spoon Experience 8-30-23 Part 1

A) In Psalm 39, verse 7, David states, “What do I wait for? My hope is in You.” This is the key: we wait for God to bring answers and deliverance for our struggles. Some people believe that this is directly in reference to David’s sin, but there is another group that believes it is also connected to David’s illness. Either way, he is asking for the Lord to be his deliverer and knows that the only answer is in God.

B) In the next verse, David says, “Deliver me from all my transgressions.” Some of our transgressions we know about, and some we don’t. What we need is God’s help in dealing with the ones that we do know about and the insight to find the ones that we don’t understand.

C) In the same verse, David says, “Remove Your plague from me.” While it won’t put to rest the idea that everything good is from God and everything bad is from Satan, the Lord allows things to happen to us for our own good. He does allow bad things to come towards us so that we can learn from them, draw upon Him, draw closer to Him, and find our deliverance from Him.

D) David makes it clear that when the Lord rebukes us, He does so because of our iniquity. He corrects a man for iniquity. When the Lord rebukes us, when He chastens us, when He disciplines us, He does it because He loves us. He does it because it’s the only way for us to step away from that iniquity and make a separation. If we continue to embrace that iniquity, it muddies our waters with Him.

E) David closes out the psalm by crying out to God, sharing that his tears are real and he does not want God to be silent. David expresses his feelings - not his faith - but his feelings are that he and God are estranged. He feels like a stranger and can only exist if the Lord will save him. But even in this, David knows that God is righteous.