God Fulfills His Purpose for Us - Psalm 57-59

Psalms 57:2

I cry out to God Most High,

to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

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In this Psalm, David is asking God to protect him from his enemy. The enemy would be King Saul, who had turned against David.  Saul was David’s father-in-law.  David was, no doubt, confused and bewildered by what was happening to him as he hid in a cave.   He cries out to God and, with the assurance only faith can have, he believes God will use this in a great way because he believes he is worshipping a God “who fulfills his purpose” for me.  What is that purpose?  Too many would answer that question with an activity, job placement or direction of will.   David knew what that purpose is as he unfolds the rest of this prayer/song:  

Psalms 57:7-10

My heart is steadfast, O God,

my heart is steadfast!

I will sing and make melody!

Awake, my glory!

Awake, O harp and lyre!

I will awake the dawn!

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;

I will sing praises to you among the nations.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens,

your faithfulness to the clouds.

His purpose is to behold the character and the beauty of God:

Psalms 57:11

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!

Let your glory be over all the earth!

It would stand to reason that Satan’s sole objective is to get mankind to miss the very purpose they were created by God.   Take a look at what Paul states in regard to Satan’s mission:

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Satan wants to blind us to the Glory of God.   The hard times we go through (like David, being in a cave and running from something or someone) are to enable us to see and behold the Glory of God.   Yet, Satan wants to blind us from seeing Christ in all His glory.  The redemptive act of salvation was God in all His glory.  That “glory” is what we not only see but are becoming:

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

God is using circumstances in life (some good and some bad) to fulfill His purpose in us.  God will never fail to complete His purpose ... getting us to see the glory of Christ:

Philippians 1:6

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.