Chapter 40

David.

1st, Wait on God, and he will lift you up, renew your path.

2nd, Depend on God, not on the proud.  Thanks to God for His wondrous deeds.

3rd, Sacrifices and offerings mean little, but God loves those who obey His laws.

     We see this many times over in the Psalms.  David recognizes that it is the heart, not the sacrifices, that God takes note of.

4th, David has proclaimed what God has done.  David is not a secret closet Christian.  David delights in speaking of God.

2025 - Here is the verse:

10 I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation. [Psa 40:10 ESV].  This is our obligation too.  God does not want us to keep him a secret.  He does not want to hide inside us.  We need to publish his works in our lives.

5th, David depends on God's mercy, despite his own failures, his countless sins.

6th, David asks that God deliver him, and shame his enemies in the process, and embarrass them for their actions.

7th, Those who love God are blessed, David asks one last time for help without delay.

2023 - Noticed this verse:  17 As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God! [Psa 40:17 ESV].  As King, David had learned, surely, that he could not help everyone.  He couldn't answer every petition.  David had to choose whom he would hear.  Likely, the more poor and needy you were, the less likely you were to get an audience with the King.  It is the same today.  The more powerful are more often heard than the poor.  But it doesn't work that way with God.  He is not less likely to hear us when we are poor in righteousness.  He hears ALL whose hearts are set upon Him.  God's attention is sufficient to hear ALL who call upon him...and material, worldly standing is irrelevant to Him.

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