"THESE CALAMITIES"
"Be
merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in
Thee: yea, in shadow of Thy wings will I make my refuge, until these
calamities be overpast." -PSALM
57:1 [KJV]
The
words of this Psalm are said to have been written by David when he
fled from Saul in the cave. He surely must have felt that he was
being overwhelmed by a multitude of “calamities.” The Hebrew word
for “calamities” is defined by words such as “iniquity,
mischief, mischievous things, naughtiness, noisome, perverse things,
very wickedness.”
No doubt he felt the presence of these things within himself as a
sinner and all around him in the world. He rejoiced and took comfort
in the fact that both would end. These calamities would pass. But
until God brought them to an end, where could he hide? Was there a
refuge? David’s refuge was “in
the shadow of Thy wings.”
He, like all believers, hid himself under the safety of divine
sovereignty, in the saving work of the coming Christ and among the
unchanging promises of God.
God
was ruling, Christ was coming and all the promises were sure! Is that
not the way it is for God’s people at this hour? Do we not have
“these calamities”
all around us every hour? Let us flee to David’s Refuge! Let his
cry be the cry of our hearts repeatedly, “O
God, be merciful to me!”
We are fearful but God is faithful. We are sinful but God is
merciful. We are among calamities but Christ is our Refuge. These
calamities are in us, in our families around us and in the world in
which we live. Our trust is not to be in our own strength or in those
around us but in our God and while these calamities often cause us
concern, we can say with David, “my
soul trusteth in Thee.”
Take refuge people of God in Christ who is our Savior in every thing
until these calamities be overpast!
-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard
Sovereign
Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA
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