Our Preserver!

Psa 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.


Continually preserve me. We need continual preservation, don't we? If someone could preserve you - keep you for God wouldn't you jump at the chance to be preserved? We need our LORD's lovingkindness and His truth to preserve us. We CAN'T preserve ourselves. Yes, I'm stressing this point, we CAN'T preserve ourselves. God's beloved men and women of the past ages didn't preserve themselves, their faith in God to preserve them is what endeared them to God. They believed in Him, they trust in Him, and they kept God first and foremost in their lives. Did they always do that? No, perhaps not, they- like us- lived in a world of sin and they had their temptations to face and their failures to trust, but they sought forgiveness from the only source of forgiveness- God. They understood the errors of their ways and repented, seeking to reestablish that connection with God. We don't want God to withhold His tender mercies from us. We need His tender mercies. We need God's lovingkindness and for His truth to preserve us. Without God's truth, without His lovingkindness we cannot prevail, we will not be preserved. When something isn't preserved it decays. We paint on preserver over wood for our patios, for pool decks, for garden rails, for fences and we do that or buy them pre-preserved so they'll last as long as possible, so nature's elements won't decay them. Throughout the years we take measures to keep the wood preserved by reapplying the necessary preserver- even if it's constant fresh coats of paint. We don't want the things we own to decay faster than they have to and we don't want our relationship with God to decay, do we? We need to be preserved by Him. Only He can preserve us. We can't go out and buy preservation for eternal life. There are no relationship preserver cans stocked on our stores shelves, we can't slather on spiritual preserver as we can put paint on a fence rail. We can go to our great Preserver and ask Him to continually preserve us with His lovingkindness and His truth by His tender mercy.


Listen to this next verse--


Psa 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.


Can you relate to that verse? Seriously, can you? I know I can. We need to be preserved because evil will compass about us. Our cherished sins will take hold of us so that the weight of them will drag us done, keeping us from even looking upwards. How many sins? One? Two? Can you look at your life and pick out the sins? Can you number your sins? Or are they more than the hair on your head? For anyone who is bald you know can remember having a head filled with hair as a youth, yes? Could you count the numbers of hair you had on your head then? Can we who have a head filled with hair now count them? It's feasible right? But what would possess someone to do so? The analogy here is the reality that sins in our lives can be so incredibly numerous they weigh us down, they hold onto us refusing to allow us to look up even, causing our hearts to fail and yes, really fail. When hearts ache in spiritual pain it's a real thing, a real spiritual agony in our lives. Have you known spiritual agony? Who is the ONLY one that can help us when spiritual oppression covers us, when evils surround us, when we are beset on every side by satan and his followers- human or angels? The LORD is the only help we have and we only need the LORD, not a thousand different remedies. There is only ONE cure, ONE remedy, ONE help and it's so incredibly powerful it can defeat innumerable sin attacks. Like any remedy we have to take it. Remedies don't just come to us out of nowhere and force themselves upon us. We have to take them. Some might argue and say they can remember being forced to take medicine as a child, or even as an adult who isn't entirely lucid. That may all be true, but the sin remedy is NEVER forced upon us, NEVER! We have to willingly take this remedy and take it often and always.


We have to pray...

Psa 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.


This reminds me of one of my favorite Bible verses-


Mar 9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.


Lord deliver me! Lord make haste to help me! Lord I believe, help mine unbelief!


Praise God He hears us! Praise God He love us! Praise God! All glory and honor to our Creator, to our Redeemer, to our Preserver!


In His love, His grace, His righteousness now and forever!



Amen.