Psalm 27

Psalm 27 was a prayer of David in a time of crisis.  It was a confident assertion that the Lord would help him against his enemies.  It was also a confident prayer to God for help.  King David was secure in the Lord.  We also can be confident in the Lord.  When we face difficult or seemingly insurmountable problems we can run to the Lord.  We can say with David of old, "The Lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the stronghold of my life-of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1)

The Lord is our light or our sense of well-being.  He is the One that guides, directs, and protects. The Lord is our source of all the blessings in our lives.  We need not fear anything or anyone, because the Lord is our stronghold.  Even when chaos and all kinds of fearful events seem to be breaking out all around us, we can be confident in the Lord.

The Lord must not only be our soul's confidence, but He must also be our soul's desire.  David said in Psalm 27:4. "One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple."  It should be our consuming passion to grow in our love relationship with the Lord and to grow in our sense of the Lord's presence in our lives.  It should be our consuming passion that we grow in our perception of the Lord's beauty.  It should be our passion to meditate on His Word and to spend time in prayer.  It should be our passion to then enter the world carrying the fragrance of Jesus, because we have spent time lingering in the Lord's presence.

Psalm 27:5 reminds us that if we are lingering in the Lord's presence we will then experience His peace and safety "in the day of trouble."  In those days of trouble the Lord will hide us in His protection and will set us "high upon a rock."  That rock is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself!  We as His children will go from victory to victory, and we will be filled with His praises!

The Lord is our light and soul's confidence.  He must further be our soul's desire.  The Lord is also our soul's prayer.  We must always seek the face of our Lord in prayer, because He alone is our helper.  We can not face one day without Him.  The Lord has promised to always be with us. Even if all others would reject us, the Lord will never reject His own.  His arms are always open wide to His children.  We are eternally secure in the Lord!

There is much turmoil in this world.  There is much we could fear, but a child of God need not fear. God's children can experience the Lord's peace.  We experience this peace by asking the Lord to teach us His ways and by walking in the Lord's paths.  Only those who know and seek to obey the Lord can experience His answers to prayer and His victories and peace in their loves.

We also experience the Lord's peace by trusting the Lord and resting our lives in Him.  We experience the Lord's peace by taking our eyes off our problems and the condition in which we find the world and by directing our eyes on the Lord.  We experience the Lord's peace by knowing that the Lord is in control and by waiting on the Lord.

Psalm 27:14 reads, "Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."  Waiting on the Lord involves not running ahead of the Lord.  It involves not forcing doors open before the Lord's perfect timing.  It involves seeking the Lord's direction, guidance, and help. Waiting on the Lord is a sure confidence that the Lord has every detail of our lives planned, so we need not panic in times of crisis or trial.  Waiting on the Lord means we are resting in the Lord for working out the details of our lives.  Waiting on the Lord means we are concentrating on our love relationship with the Lord and not on our problems.  Waiting on the Lord is being quiet long enough to hear His voice in His Holy Word and in our hearts.  Because Psalm 27:1 assures us that the Lord is our "light" and "salvation," we need to fear nothing.  He is our peace and strength.  Wait on the Lord!