Lately I’ve been feeling like David- King David of the Bible that is, not just some random guy named David. Anyway, I say that not because I’ve felt very kingly or wise, but more so because I relate to the cries of his heart that are so beautifully conveyed throughout the pages of Psalms.

I’d like to tell you about one specific psalm that stuck out but I feel a deep heart connection with so many of them. As I would read David’s cries to God to save him, pleading for mercy and grace, pleading for compassion and forgiveness, pleading for rescue, my heart would turn violently inside of my chest because these were the cries of my heart as well. To be saved from my selfishness, to be saved from the sins that chain me down and keep me from pursuing Christ. To be forgiven for running back to those chains that I find so shamelessly comfortable. SAVE ME!!! I need You to rescue me from myself, from my enemies, from the Enemy!

And the entire time my heart is crying out, I feel this sense of calmness beside the crashing waves of fear and doubts and anxiety, this feeling of truth, this feeling that all will be okay. And so does David.

I love how so many of the laments, the cries of David’s heart, end with the proclamation that God is God, that He is Holy, that He is King of Kings, that He does forgive, that His grace knows no depths, that He does lift us up and set our feet upon a solid rock, and that He will never leave us nor forsake us no matter what attacks the world throws our way. He tells us that as we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we have nothing to fear- not death, not Satan, not the world, not brokenness, not our own selfishness, not the chains of our sin and guilt and shame. He is our comfort and He is with us forever and always!