Psalm 27 • January 15, 2025 • g1308
Pastor Todd Lauderdale teaches a message through Psalm 27 titled “Confidence In The Midst Of Crisis.”
If you want to join me, we’re going to be in Psalm 27 in the Old Testament. Psalm 27 will be our text for this evening. I’ve titled the message tonight, “Confidence In The Midst Of Crisis.” I’m going to begin by just reading the entire psalm. It’s not incredibly lengthy but I think it would be good for us to hear it all first off, and then we’ll back up and take a look at its components here. Follow along with me beginning in verse 1. It says,
“The LORD is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident.
4 One thing I have desired of the LORD,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the LORD,
And to inquire in His temple.
5 For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.
6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my
enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His
tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”
9 Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the LORD will take care of me.
11 Teach me Your way, O LORD,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD;
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the LORD!”
Now you probably picked it up in this psalm that it is a psalm of crisis. David is the author of this psalm, and he is going through some significant crisis in his life, and we really don’t know which crisis it was. He doesn’t give us enough detail for us to figure that out. David went through a lot of crises in his life. He had a lot of situations where he was in fear, he was facing trials, he was betrayed at times, and he was attacked at times. He was no stranger to going through a crisis. And it’s really not important for us to know which specific crisis it is because if you’re going through a life crisis, you’re going through a life crisis. All of us know what that is like because none of us is immune to going through those types of things. All of us have a story to tell, and we can relate to what it is like to have your world turned upside down.
The question is how do we handle it when it happens? Now, you might handle it well many of the times, others of us might not go so well, and there’s nothing worse than when you’re going through a bad situation to make really bad choices to just compound the bad situation that you happen to be in; but that’s exactly how some of us handle many of our life crises. We don’t know what to do, so we start making decisions off the cuff that really weren’t well thought out and it ends in disaster.
A while back I came across this story about a man who had been injured on his job, and he had to file a Workers’ Compensation claim with the insurance company. When they asked for a description of exactly how he got hurt, he simply put in the space, “I lost my presence of mind.” Well, that wasn’t sufficient for the insurance company, so they sent him a notice saying, “We need more details, so we need to hear fully what exactly happened that caused your injuries.” I want to read for you what he said to them. “I am a brick layer by trade. On the day of the accident I was working alone on the roof of a new six-story building. When I had completed my work, I discovered that I had about five hundred pounds of bricks left over. Rather than carry the bricks down by wheelbarrow, I decided to lower them in a barrel by using a pulley which was attached to the side of the building at the sixth floor. Securing the rope at ground level, I went back up to the roof and loaded the bricks into it. Then, I went back down to ground floor and untied the rope, holding it tightly to assure a slow descent of the five hundred pounds of bricks. You will note in block 11 of the accident report that I weigh 135 pounds. Due to my surprise at being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and didn’t let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rapid rate up the side of the building.
“In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming down. This explains the fractured skull and broken collarbone. Slowed only slightly, I continued the rapid ascent not stopping until my fingers were two knuckles deep in the pulley. This explains the lacerations on my right hand. At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Devoid of the weight of the bricks, the barrel now weighed about fifty pounds. I refer you again to my weight in block 11. Suddenly, I began a rapid descent down the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles and the lacerations to my legs. The encounter with the barrel slowed me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell into the pile of bricks and fortunately only three vertebrae were cracked. I am sorry to report, however, that as I laid there in the bricks in pain, unable to move and watching the barrel six stories above me, I again lost my presence of mind, I let go of the rope.”
Now, that’s making a bad situation a whole lot worse by bad decisions. The truth is is that sometimes we are in bad places in life and we complicate those things by making really bad choices. In our effort to try and resolve it, to try and fix it, we actually make it worse.
Now, this psalm, Psalm 27, has speculatively been thought by some that it was actually two different psalms that at some point in the past were put together, sewn together, to make one psalm. The reason that they think that is because the first half of the psalm it seems that David is expressing a whole lot of confidence in the Lord, his eyes seem to be in the right place trusting in God. But in the second half of the psalm, there are a lot of statements that he makes that express how deep the struggle was that he was going through. Several things that are mentioned between verses 7 and 12, he makes statements like this, “O LORD . . . answer me.” “Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger . . . Do not leave me nor forsake me.” “Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries.”
While the first half of the psalm makes a whole lot of statements which it emphasizes his trust in the Lord. In the second half of the psalm there are many statements that seem that he is very unsettled so some have thought that maybe these were really two different psalms and at some point were brought together. But I want to argue that that is not the case. I think that this is in fact one psalm by David, and he in the midst of even writing the psalm is experiencing what a lot of us experience in that we have moments where we have absolute trust in the Lord and our eyes are in the right place, followed by a period of time where there is doubt and struggle where we’re considering our circumstances and we are feeling a little bit overwhelmed. I mean, how many of us can relate to yesterday having our eyes on the Lord with full confidence, and this morning we woke up and our peace had been stripped from us and we were in despair. I mean, some of you—maybe even this morning—you are feeling pretty good about life, but you showed up here full of anxiety. You know, things change. We are human beings, and we can have moments as believers where our eyes are on the Lord and we’re fully trusting Him only to be followed by a time period where we begin to try and take those things back into our own control to try and figure it out because we don’t feel like God is moving fast enough. How many of you can relate to that? I image all of us can because we have been there.
And David, as he so often does in the psalms that he wrote, he is laying his heart out there. We are seeing much of his confidence and trust in the Lord, a few instances where it seems like his eyes are more on the problem than on the Lord, but in spite of this roller coaster throughout the psalm David makes some really good decisions, and I want to draw from this psalm seven good decisions that he made in his time of crisis that we really need to consider when it comes to our life crises. When we go through a really difficult time, these are some things that we need to remember.
The first one we will find in verse 1 where we see where David’s confidence lie, “The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?” I will tell you this that when things are not going well in your life, it is easy to be overcome by fear. We begin to fear all kinds of things. We fear the worst. We fear that we’re not going to figure out how to get out of the situation. We fear that we may never get out of the situation. David could’ve been afraid, but twice in this first verse he says that he has no reason to be afraid. He tells us why he had no reason to be afraid, he had confidence in three things. Let me tell you, the confidence was not in himself.
Sometimes we think that we have to have more confidence in ourself in order to handle our situations. David’s confidence was not in himself, David’s confidence is where it should have been—it was in the Lord. He makes these statements about the Lord. He calls the Lord his “light,” his “salvation," and his “strength.” Now, these were not just like cute little metaphorical terms. These at the core of a crisis in your life are things that you need from the Lord. The Lord really is the solution to all of our problems, and the way that David illustrates that is by these three words—light, salvation, and strength—which is such a contrast to how we usually feel when we are in the midst of a really severe trial because trials can be very, very dark, but David says, “God is my light in that darkness.” In the midst of trials, we can be full of despair, but David says that God is my salvation. Incidentally, that word “salvation” is not so much speaking about our eternal salvation, that one day we will go home to be with the Lord, it has to do with deliverance. David’s confidence was that he didn’t need to despair because God will, in God’s time, deliver him from his situation.
Another thing that we experience a lot when we’re going through it is we feel weak. We just feel overcome with weakness of not knowing what to do, and sometimes physically it takes a toll on us. But David had his eyes on the Lord, and the Lord was going to be his strength. So, by the Lord being his “light,” David was going to see the way that he needed to go. He knew that God ultimately would deliver him and was going to strengthen him along the way.
That’s not even where it stops because notice this, David does not call the Lord “light” or “salvation” or “strength,” he says, “The LORD is my light and my salvation;” and my strength. David literally was taking possession of the Lord as if the Lord belonged to him, and I think that that blesses God when we as His people have such a desire for God in our life that literally we call Him our own—that we belong to Him, that He belongs to us—and it really shows us that David considered God his source. When he was in trouble, God was his solution. God was his source.
Let me ask you, when you’re in crisis, where do you place your confidence? Are you trusting in yourself to get yourself out of the situation or to solve the problem? Or is your confidence in the Lord.
The second choice that David made was what he was going to pursue. If you look at verse 4, he said, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, That I will seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD, All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.” I would imagine that many of you are familiar with this verse. There’s been songs that have taken the theme of this verse, and it’s a well-loved verse out of the Scripture because of the sentiment that David is expressing about just wanting to be in the presence of the Lord, his chief desire.
But we don’t often consider the context in which David wrote these words. It was not at a time in his life where everything was rosy and good and he was full of great things happening. That oftentimes might be a time that we just are feeling overjoyed to express that type of desire to be near the Lord. Instead, it was just the opposite. When you are really going through it, what is your number one desire? I’m going to bet that it’s the same as with me, that is, “God, get me out of this mess.” That our biggest desire in that moment is that we would not be in the situation that we’re in, that whatever our crisis is, that it would go away, that it would be resolved. In fact, that’s where our prayers are usually oriented around, “Lord, I need You to remove this. I need You to get me out of here. I need this to be fixed,” you know, and our chief desire is resolution, that we would not be in the situation that we’re in anymore.
That wasn’t David’s chief desire. He’s not saying, “God, what I desire is for You to solve all of this for me.” Now, that’s not a bad thing to pray, I’m not saying that you cannot pray that God would deliver you from those things, but it should not be the first thing that we desire. The first thing ought to be our relationship with Him, and that’s what David begins to express. In the midst of his struggle, God was still his one desire, “That I may dwell in the house of the LORD.”
Now, by using that term, “the house of the Lord,” he was…in fact, you’ll maybe notice throughout this psalm he refers to the house of God by using several different terms. He calls it the “tabernacle.” He calls it the “temple.” Later on, he’s going to call it a “pavilion,” but it was all different terminology that David was using to describe the place where God dwelt, and that’s really where the Jewish mindset was is the tabernacle, the temple, was where the presence of God was. In using these words, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD,” it meant that he wanted to be where God was. He wanted to be in the presence of God, and that ought to be our desire as well.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that sometimes we are in a crisis because God is simply trying to get our attention. Notice what it says in verse 8, “When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ My heart said to You, ‘Your face, LORD, I will seek.’” When did God tell David, “Seek My face”? Did God say that verbally to him? Did he hear a voice from the clouds that said, “Seek My face?” I’m not so sure of that. What I believe happened is in the midst of David’s crisis, he realized that God wanted David to draw near, and oftentimes the very situations that we find ourselves in, the hardships that we face, are God’s way of grabbing our attention and literally saying to us, “Seek My face.” We need to seek the face of God, and unfortunately sometimes it takes a catastrophe in order for us to turn our eyes upward. It might be that sometimes, when we lose sight of the Lord, God in His loving way allows difficulty to come into our life that He might get our attention, and it just might be in that moment that He is saying to you, “It’s time to seek My face.”
David was seeking the face of God in the midst of his situation. He had placed his confidence in the Lord, he was pursuing the Lord, but then we find also that he was making the choice that was going to bring him peace, and that was hiding himself in the Lord. Look at what it says in verse 5, “For in the time of trouble, He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle, He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.” Again, he reminds us that he’s having a difficult time because he begins the verse by calling it “ . . . the time of trouble.”
When you’re in a time of trouble, that’s usually a time that you’re feeling a lot of anxiety, maybe uncertainty, you don’t really know how it’s going to turn out. We long for peace. We long for certainty. We desire those things because we’ve just been stripped of those things by the circumstances that we happen to be going through, so we’re longing for something to restore our peace.
Scripture tells us that God is our peace. He’s the place that we can run to in order to experience the peace of God that transcends all understanding. But for many people it seems that that peace is elusive—it’s very hard to grab ahold of, it’s hard to sense it, experience it in the midst of all of the circumstances that happen to be going on in their life. Why is it that David seemed to be able to find a place of peace in the midst of the circumstances that he happened to be going through at that time? I believe it’s because he made a choice to tap into it.
You know, here’s the thing is that there’s a lot of things that are at our disposal that we miss out on simply because we have disconnected ourselves from them. You know, you cut a branch off of a vine, and that branch is going to wither up. Why? Because it’s no longer receiving from that vine the resources that it needs in order to thrive or to bear fruit. You can turn on a lamp, and it doesn’t turn on, and you realize that the reason my lamp didn’t turn on is because it’s unplugged from the wall. As soon as I plug it back in, I can get that lamp to turn on. It’s gotta be plugged in. It’s gotta be connected. I believe that sometimes we aren’t connected. We have disconnected ourselves from our source of peace. If God is our peace, we need to be where the peace is. We need to be connected to it.
Notice what David says. He makes a few statements I want us to take note of, “He shall hide me in His pavilion,” and at the end of the verse, “He shall set me high upon a rock.” Two pictures that he is drawing for us: 1) where he says, “He shall hide me,” and 2) “He shall set me.” Where will He hide me? He will hide me in His pavilion. Again, this was one of those terms where David is referencing the house of God, the place that God’s presence dwelt, and so he is placing himself in the presence of God so that God could be that covering for him, and then “He shall set me high upon a rock.” That was a term that David used not just here, but we find it elsewhere, and it seems like it was a favorite term of David.
In Psalm 61, he uses it when he’s going through a difficult time, “Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer. 2 From the end of the earth I will cry to You, When my heart is overwhelmed; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Here he wants God to lift him up on this high rock. In Psalm 61 he reiterates the same type of idea. But if you put these two together, the pavilion would cover him from above, the rock would lift him up above his enemies, so he is now surrounded by the protection of God. The pavilion was going to protect him from all of the enemies’ attacks from above, the rock was going to lift him above where the enemies could attack him from below, and it’s a picture of a place where he could experience the peace of God because he knows that God has surrounded him—that God is above me, that God is beneath me—He’s given me stability, but it’s because that’s where David placed himself. He put himself in a place where he could experience the peace of God.
Sometimes we’re lacking that peace because we have disconnected ourselves, and we need to plug back in. We need to get reconnected again.
David made the good choice by placing his confidence in God. He made a good choice by pursuing God, seeking God’s face. He made the good choice by placing himself where God’s peace could be his covering, and then we find in verse 6, that David also made a good choice about his attitude. Verse 6, it says, “And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.”
Notice he begins verse 6 with the words, “And now.” What do you mean, now? What’s happening now? Why now? Why now is he able to experience joy and to sing God’s praises? Well, if we back up to what we have already covered, we see a picture of why it was in that moment his attitude could be so set on joy and on praise because his confidence was in the Lord, he was seeking after the Lord. He found the peace of God in the midst of placing his life where it needed to be in the midst of his crisis, not running around like a chicken with his head cut off, but under the pavilion of God standing upon the rock of his Savior, trusting that God was going to give him the light that he needed, and the result of that was that he had joy.
Notice that it says, “Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle.” If there’s one thing that I have learned, it’s that bad circumstances in life—trials, tribulations, crisis—strip people of joy. They don’t fill us with joy, they usually rob us of joy. David says, “Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy,” but too often we sacrifice our joy because of the situation that we’re in.
How could David make a sacrifice of joy rather than sacrificing his joy? I believe it’s because he set his eyes on the Lord rather than on his problems. You see, when your eyes are on the Lord, your God gets very big and your problems begin to get small. But when your eyes are on your problems, your problems begin to get very big and your God gets very small. At least He’s small in your own mind because your problems that are bigger than you are, you begin to assume are bigger than God and He can’t handle it either, and that’s going to rob you of your peace. It’s going to rob you of your joy, and your praise will begin to disappear because your eyes are on the wrong thing. Set your eyes upon the Lord. Look at how great He is. Remember all of His past faithfulness. And because of that, he was able in the midst of being attacked by enemies, he could praise God, offering God a sacrifice of joy.
The fifth decision he made, the choice that he made, was a willingness to grow in the midst of his problem. Look at verse 11, “Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.” Every hardship that we go through is an opportunity to grow and to learn. In fact, I think a lot of times the reason that we’re going through situations is so that we would mature a little bit. It’s God’s classroom in our lives. But we miss that sometimes because we’re not so much interested in learning a lesson as we are in just the problem being over, and so our attention and our focus begins to be solely upon resolving the problem, getting out of the situation, get back to my life the way that it used to be, and we’re not really looking to learn anything from the situation, we’re just learning to escape the situation. What David is doing in verse 11 is he’s realizing that this is a moment in my life where maybe God is wanting to teach me something, “Teach me Your way, O LORD.”
I want to challenge you. When you’re going through whatever you go through in life, that rather than just trying to find the quickest way out of the situation, you would first ask the Lord, “Lord, what is it that You are trying to show me? What is it that You want to teach me through this experience?” because I can guarantee you that the Lord is not sending us through the things that we go through for no reason at all. In fact, that would really be a tragedy for us to go through all of the things that we have to go through in life only to not learn anything about it, only to not grow at all, mature at all, have our faith stretched, our knowledge of God expanded. If none of those things happen, we just keep going through…you knew what it was like when you were in school, right? If you didn’t pass the test, what did you have to do? You had to retake the test. Maybe some of us are on that treadmill right now where we just seem to be going from trial to trial to trial. We’re not really learning anything, we’re just going from these trials to trial all because the Lord is wanting to teach us His ways, but our only desire is to get out of the situation, not to learn anything.
How different is would be if our prayer began to be like David’s, “Lord, teach me Your ways. What is it that You want to teach me through this situation," so that we’re not having to repeat the same test. In reality, some of us probably got a PhD in the school of hard knocks. That doesn’t mean that the day will come when God doesn’t have to test you anymore, I think this side of heaven our lives will always be tested. We will go through situations that God wants to teach us in. Let us learn those lessons. Let us grow through those things.
C.S. Lewis said, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pain. It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” It might be true also to rouse a sleeping believer. You know, it’s not just those in the world that God is trying to wake up from their slumber, sometimes it’s a believer that has just grown stagnant and needs a little bit of crisis in their life to fix their eyes upon the Lord again that they might learn the lessons that they need to learn.
What kind of lessons would God want to be teaching us in a time like that? Maybe just simple gratitude, being grateful for what you have. I think some of the hardships that we go through are because we take a lot of things for granted. But when you go through something severe and you come out the other side, many times you have a grateful heart for all the good things that God has blessed you with. Sometimes it’s to humble us. Sometimes it’s to teach us dependence upon the Lord. There are a ton of things that God wants to teach us through the things that we go through, but it’s a tragedy to go through those things and then to not learn anything from them.
The Apostle Paul wrote some familiar words to us in Philippians 4, one of the best known verses and often the verse that is quoted and turned to when life is tough. I’ll read to you the words that we are familiar with, but then I want to back it up and share with you what he said beforehand. Paul wrote in Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” but are you familiar with what it says before that? Do you know why Paul wrote those words, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”? Oftentimes, what we think of those words is the strength of God that’s going to help us conquer and to overcome, but in reality Paul’s thought process was not on conquering, it was on enduring because Paul described…I’ll read some of his words. He says, “I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
You see, the focus of Paul’s words was not on, “I can do anything with God’s help,” it was “I can endure anything with the help of Jesus Christ my Lord.” The idea was on growing through his situation. He had learned to be content whether he had a lot or whether he had a little, but it all came from Christ who would give him the strength when he was in a time of need. When we’re in a time of need, maybe one of the best lessons that we can learn is that God can supply all of our need according to His riches in Christ Jesus.
We got a couple more, and not a whole lot of time left, so let me get on to number six. The sixth choice that David made was the choice to believe. He had faith. Notice what he says in verse 13, “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed, That I would see the goodness of the LORD, In the land of the living.” I would’ve lost heart. You know, a lot of people do lose heart. The tragic fact is that a lot of people in the midst of the difficulties of life, they lose heart; and oftentimes because they lose heart, they also lose faith. “How could God allow this to happen in my life? If God is really there, why isn’t He answering my prayer? If God is really good, how could He allow this to happen?” and they lose heart, and they lose faith. That’s not what David is saying. He said, “I would have lost heart,” if it were not for one thing. I would’ve been like those people that lose heart if not for the fact that I believed. And what did he believe? “I had believed, That I would see the goodness of the LORD, In the land of the living.” He didn’t lose heart because he believed that God was good, and even if he couldn’t see how it was going to turn out, he knew that God was going to work all things together for the good because God is good.
You know, the impala, the animal not the car, is an interesting animal because they are very sleek and very fast. They run I think 50 or 60 miles an hour out there on the plain, but they are also able to jump very high. They can jump 10 feet in the air, and they can jump 30 feet in distance; yet when you go to a zoo, it’s not uncommon to see where the impalas are in the enclosure that there is a wall that is maybe no more than three or four feet high, enough for a six- or seven-year-old to look over, and it’s not 30 feet wide or 10 feet high, so why doesn’t the impala just simply jump out of the enclosure? I will tell you why because an impala will not jump where he cannot see where his feet are going to land. If he cannot see the place where his feet will land, he will not make the jump, so all it takes is a four-foot wall to keep him in that enclosure.
But that’s so descriptive of so many people that can’t see their way out of their problem, they can’t see how it’s going to be fixed. They can’t see God in the midst of the situation, so they walk by sight rather than by faith, and then they are trapped within their situations because they can’t see, as David saw, the goodness of God. Now, in the moment, David couldn’t see it. He was surrounded by his enemies. He had all kinds of problems going on in his life. He was in a life crisis, but he knew enough about God to know that God is good, and I would’ve lost heart if I didn’t believe that God was good. But because he believed in the goodness of God, he knew that God was going to get him out of it.
Let me give you one last choice that he made, and I’m so grateful for this choice because it affects us in a very real way. He finishes the psalm by saying, “Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!” David gave good counsel. He chose to give us good counsel. Actually, I’m going up and down, he at times is expressing joy but then he is at times expressing a bit of fear. What we do find is he’s making wise choices. He’s choosing to place his confidence in God. He’s choosing that he is going to seek the face of God. He’s choosing that he is going to make God his source of peace, which is going to result in God also being his source of joy and of praise; and he’s not going to let this trial go to waste, he’s wants to learn from it, so he’s actively asking God, “Teach me. In the midst of this, teach me what You want me to know,” and he does not lose his faith. He trusts in the Lord knowing that God is good, and “I don’t know how long I’m going to have to wait, I don’t know when God is going to fix this, I don’t even know how He’s going to fix it, but I believe that I will see the goodness of God again.” David was waiting for his deliverance, and we can wait, too.
Isaiah said that we ought to “ . . . wait on the LORD,” because “those that wait on the LORD, Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” Amen?
Pastor Todd Lauderdale teaches a message through Psalm 27 titled “Confidence In The Midst Of Crisis.”