“The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his
covenant known to them. My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release
my feet from the snare.” Psalm 25:14-15
To fear God
is not to be afraid of Him, but to be in awe of Him and give Him reverence and
respect. The Lord confides in those who
give Him His due respect. He is the
Creator of all things, even man’s first breath and is in control of everything
that takes place. To have something be
out of His control would make Him less than who He claims to be.
If there is someone greater than
Almighty God, then by all means, worship him.
I believe you will find no one in existence that is greater than our
Creator God. Anything else in existence
has, in fact, been created by Him and is therefore under Him in stature and
importance.
David tells his readers that he is ever
mindful of his Lord and keeps his focus squarely on Him at all times. This doesn’t mean he thinks of nothing else,
it simply means that he is ever mindful of His presence in his life. God alone can release us from the snares we
sometimes find ourselves in. God alone
can lift our spirit high above the clouds and fill us with peace. God alone is our hope for tomorrow. There is no hope in anyone or thing
else. God brings us salvation, something
no one else is capable of doing. So join
David in showing Almighty God the respect and reverence due Him and watch as He
reveals His secrets to us. Until next
time, walk with the King and be a blessing!
NOTE:
A Psalm of David. David is pictured in
this Psalm as in a faithful miniature. His holy trust, his many conflicts, his
great transgression, his bitter repentance, and his deep distresses are all
here; so that we see the very heart of "the man after God's own
heart." It is evidently a composition of David's later days, for he
mentions the sins of his youth, and from its painful references to the craft
and cruelty of his many foes, it will not be too speculative a theory to refer
it to the period when Absalom was heading the great rebellion against him. This
has been styled the second of the seven Penitential Psalms. It is the mark of a
true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin
drives him to his God.
In the Psalm there
are great changes of thought, but there is no variation of subject; the moods
of the writer's mind are twofold—prayer and meditation; and as these appear in
turns, we should thus divide the verses. Prayer from Ps 25:1-7; meditation, Ps
25:8-10; prayer, Ps 25:11; meditation, Ps 25:12-15; prayer, Ps 25:16-22. [Charles H. Spurgeon; Treasury of David;
http://www.spurgeon.org/treasury/ps025.htm]
