“Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.”
– Psalm 109:26
Hi James and Ellen,
Have you ever had a kid – or a guy or gal, snub you? Have you ever had a kid – or a guy or gal, criticize you? Have you ever had a kid – or a guy or gal, curse you? If you have felt snubbed, how did it feel not to be seen? If you have felt criticized, how did it feel to be disapproved? If you have been cursed, how did it feel to be humiliated? Do you know a kid – or a guy and gal, who gets an adrenaline kick from cold-shouldering, condemning and destroying other guys, gals and kids? Have you had a kid – or a guy or gal, join a crowd of guys, gals and kids who are finding ways to flout you, find fault with you and falsely accuse you. A way that your grandpaa believes that Satan’s gofers are able to wreak havoc in the lives of faithful Christ-follower guys, gals and kids is that God has allowed Satan to use his minions to embed a conceited, negative and/or disparaging guy, gal and/or kid or conceited, negative and/or disparaging guys, gals and/or kids in the circle of acquaintances that each Christ-follower guy, gal or kid has. Satan through these embedded disparaging, derogatory, and demeaning guys, gals and kids assigns pride, jealousy and lying spirits to deflate, debase and devastate Christ-follower guys, gals and kids. After wicked, deceitful guys tried to defame David – after David’s attempt at befriending them, David scribed a psalm song that pleads with God to do to them what they have tried to do to him. Do you know what it is like to be blatantly disliked or hated by a kid – or by a guy or gal? Do you know what it is like to be verbally confronted for no reason at all by a kid – or by a guy or gal? David spells it out very clearly in Psalm 109 what it was like to be loathed and ridiculed. David unloads on God in this psalm song when he tells God that he has had it receiving evil from some guys as payment for the good deeds that he has done for them – and for the hatred from these same guys as payment for the friendship that he has shown them. David brusquely tells God in this psalm song to appoint an evil guy to oppose and accuse one dude who has apparently really gotten on David’s nerves. Have you had a kid – or a guy or gal, get big time on your nerves? If you have had a kid – or a guy or gal, get big time on your nerves, what did you do about it? Your grandpaa’s counsel for a Christ-follower guy or gal who is being emotionally wounded by an evil spirit driven pompous, spiteful and/or nefarious guy or gal who Satan has implanted through his cronies in his or her acquaintance circle is for the guy or gal to take the high road – which is to swallow hard and to move on doing something else. Do you think taking the high road is always the right thing to do when . . . your grandmaa insists on always taking the high road when . . .
Do you think that a guy or gal who suddenly finds himself or herself out of his or her job because a portentous, envious and/or contemptible guy or gal has decided that . . ., should you ask God to do what David asks God to do? David bluntly tells God in this psalm song that he wants Him to have the guy who has gotten big time on his nerves to be tried and found guilty, to make few the guy’s remaining planet Earth days, to find another guy to replace this guy in his leadership role, to make the guy’s kids fatherless, to make the guy’s wife a widow, to make the guy’s kids wandering beggars, to have the guy’s house ransacked, to make the guy’s creditors seize all his possessions, to make strangers plunder the guy’s fields, to keep all guys, gals and kids from showing the guy kindness, to keep all guys, gals and kids from showing pity on the guy’s kids, to have the guy’s descendants cut off and blotted out from living in the next generation, to never ever forget the guy’s sins as well as his ma’s sins and to have the guy forgotten as a guy who has lived on planet Earth. After David tells God what he expects God to do to this rogue, David tells God why – as if God does not already know. The guy per David is a boorish cad who never thought of doing kindness but instead hounds to death the poor, needy and brokenhearted. The guy per David loves to pronounce a curse over a guy, gal or kid instead of proclaiming a blessing over a guy, gal or kid. David’s opinion of this guy is that the guy wore cursing like a garment, drank cursing like water and that cursing to him was like oil in his bones. Before David scribed this imploring psalm song to God to do something radical to the guy who was being a torment to him, David fasted long enough to leave himself looking thin and gaunt.
Going to God for help should never be your last option. God is never in the dark about anything. God is in the middle of it all – celebrating with you what you are having to learn from what He is having you to go through or experience. Verse 26 is a verse that could be used each time that you find yourselves facing the invariable nemesis who is out to . . ., “Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.” Your grandpaa does not have trouble accepting, affirming and approving a kid even when the kid is acting out. Your grandpaa has a hard time giving a pass to a guy or gal who uses an authority position to push down a mandate – or make a call for the termination, on or of a guy or gal who he or she does not like or want to have around anymore. Your grandpaa has an even harder time with an arbitrary call that a guy or gal has made that affects your grandpaa’s future – or the future of another guy or gal, without first talking to your grandpaa or to the guy or gal about the decision that he or she has made. Just as David freely vented his feelings to God, you are always free to vent your feelings to God, too.
Psalm 109 (1080)