PSALM 57--REFUGE IN SHADOW

This is the prayer I opened up from Psalm 57.

57.1 says exactly what I need--

Have mercy on me, for in You I take refuge.

I will take refuge in the shadow of Your wings until the disaster  has passed.

 

Cf. Psalms 25, 26,+++

 

"Refuge"--the place I go when the bottom has and/or is dropping out.

Here I find something new about God. 

 

I cry out to God.

 

1. I come to refuge.
2. I cry out to God.
3. He sends from Heaven--love and faithfulness.

 

My trouble is like lions, ravenous beasts, men with teeth like spears arrows, tongues like sharp swords.

 

When I run into a refuge to cry out, the exalted God of Glory, Who is over all the earth, reaches from the heavens and across the earth to bring His glorious love and faithfulness to me in the night watches so that I awake to new mercies.

 

These are new mercies I had never knew existed.

They are exceedingly, abundantly above all I could ever know or ask for,

great and mighty things I never knew existed.

 

They are given to me in the face of an exceedingly malicious evil beyond any man's comprehension.

 

The evil is great.

The love and faithfulness are exceedingly, abundantly above the evil.

 

This love is steadfast, unmovable, unshakeable.

This love comes to me in my refuge.

This love makes me strong, steadfast, unmovable.

 

I will arise before the dawn that I may know more of such glory, grace, and goodness.

I will sing and praise the God Who comes to me in the place He has put me among the nations.

 

He is and ever will be exalted in gloriousness above all the heavens and earth.

This glorious and exalted God is with me here, now, and forever.

 

With eternal love and joy, for you

With prayer for peace and comfort, for you

With gratitude and thanksgiving, for you