Turn To God | Psalm 40:1-2 | Mornings with Mike

Today I am talking about Psalm 40:1-2, at the core, these verses speak to us on the times we turn to God.

Psalm 40:1-2
'I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.'

Here David recalls that he waited patiently for the Lord to answer his urgent prayer. The Hebrew construction here uses the same root word twice, with different tenses. This most literally means something like "waited, waited," or "I waited to wait." This technique indicates David's perseverance in prayer for the Lord to answer.
The second phrase in this verse also includes a turn of phrase. The Hebrew root word implies something turning or bending. This is a sort of poetic image, God is "leaning forward" to hear David, the way a person might do for a child who speaks quietly. The Lord heard David's urgent prayer.

This is likely not a literal event in David's life such as being trapped in a pit. Rather, this is additional poetry describing how deeply desperate was David's plight. We have all ended up in this place. We can imagine being abandoned in a cavernous hole in the ground filling with water, mud, and slime on the walls. Is impossible to get a foothold, but the Lord reached down to David, answered his cry for help, and pulled him to safety. David says the Lord set his feet on a rock and made his steps secure. This image reminds us that the Lord saves, just as he rescued David from his enemies and provided security for him.
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