Psalms 35:11-14 (ESV)
11 Malicious witnesses rise up;
they ask me of things that I do not know.
12 They repay me evil for good;
my soul is bereft.
13 But I, when they were sick—
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
14 I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
I bowed down in mourning.
The above verses above are part of a prayer from King David. He is singing God’s praise that his God is a great God. When the song reaches its climax David proclaims:
Psalms 35:27 (ESV)
Let those who delight in my righteousness
shout for joy and be glad
and say evermore,
“Great is the LORD,
who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
But before David can be so bold to shout out praise that God is great, he has the above moments when it doesn’t look so great. In the above verses, 11 and 12, we read that he had people who were attacking him. He was doing good to them but they were returning evil back. David was in a this is not fair, moment of life. However, David’s response to this is amazing. He states in verses 13-14 that his response to them was to pray for them. He did not seek vengeance on them but he, instead, wore sackcloth and fasted for them. His response to them was the same response God gave to David. David had turned his back on God a few times, yet God forgave and loved on him. David’s song, that God is great, was written because he not only saw that greatness of God’s amazing love and grace, God empowered him to do the same things to others. God is great and He delights in the welfare of his servant. He even does it when the world around us returns us evil for our good. But, to get to the phrase God is great we often have to work through the times of it is not fair.
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