the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Psalms 57:1-11
Like Psalms 51:1-19; Psalms 56:1-13, this one begins with the words "Be merciful unto me, O God! . . ." For divine grace is my resource, not only against the evil which surrounds me, but also concerning the sin that is within me (Psalms 51:1-19). Whether the enemies go under the name of Absalom, of Philistines, or of Saul, . . . Satan or the world, the safe refuge of my soul is "in thee", Lord Jesus, "in the shadow of thy wings" (v. 1). In such a place of shelter I do not fear anything coming from men’s tongues, nor the net they have prepared for my steps (vv. 4, 6; cf. Psalms 91:3-4). "God . . . that performeth all things for me" (v. 2). It is the equivalent of Romans 8:28 – "we know," declares the apostle, "that all things work together for good to them that love God." Faith leads us first to believe, then to experience that "all things", even those things most contrary to our own wishes, are ordered by God to bring us into blessing.
But here the believer is more anxious about the glory of God than about his own deliverance (v. 5, repeated in v. 11 and Psalms 108:5). This was the prayer of the Lord Jesus with regard to the cross which was before Him: "Father, glorify thy name" (John 12:28). It should also be our first desire in every circumstance of our life.
