David’s Lament
This year, 2012, my church, Worthington Christian Church, is encouraging everyone to read through the bible in a year using the “One Year Bible” reading plan. Today is day 6, and I am blogging through the bible this year.
What struck me in today’s reading is that David laments over his sin. The start of healing is admitting our brokenness. Step 1 in Celebrate Recovery is:
We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.Romans 7:18.
David clearly is lamenting over his sin and understands that he can’t fix himself, and that only God can deliver him from his hurts, habits, and hang-ups (death) vs. 5).
Psalm 6
O Lord, Deliver My Life
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
3 My soul also is greatly troubled.
But you, O Lord—how long?4 Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;
save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?6 I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief;
it grows weak because of all my foes.8 Depart from me, all you workers of evil,
for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my plea;
David is honest with himself, and God over his sin. He pours his heart out in this Psalm. We sometimes fail to be real with God or someone else. David had no shame admitting his brokenness.
