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Where do you turn for help?


I  am severely afflicted; give me life, O LORD, according to your word!
Psalm 119:107

Where do you turn for help? Maybe where you turn is indicative of where your confidence lies. Assuming that David wrote this the longest psalm, his brief statement in verse 107 was at first puzzling to me.

Our teens are memorizing this text and it has been a good challenge. However, during the six months there have been several verses that arrested my attention. This was one.

David cries out, I  am severely afflicted! He is in severe trouble. There seems to be no escape. Where should he turn? The answer comes with his next breath, give me life, O LORD, according to your word!

David's trust was not in his great wealth. It wasn’t in his position. It wasn’t in the fact that his army was powerful. His trust was in God and His Word. They were his first recourse.

David didn't have as much of the Word as you and I have. At best he had the Law (Genesis to Deuteronomy), some of the Jewish history (Joshua to Ruth and maybe part of 1 Samuel) and maybe some poetry in Job. Yet he begged God to use what he had to bring him life. Without the Word of God there could be no expectation.

Where do you turn when desperate, the horoscope, your best friend, facebook? None of these will bring life and promise through your trial. Only God and His Word breathe hope into the hopeless, life into the lifeless and possibility into the impossible. God knows your hurts and His Word has the answers to your desperation. Turn there and earnestly seek His face. He wants to help!

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