Psalms 8:1, 16:2, and 25
My Shepherd met me in His green pastures and laid me down in Psalm 25. I remember the tune put to this Psalm by Charles Monroe, 1971, and sang it in my heart as I read. The Mind of the Spirit engaged the spirit of my mind in verses 15-18:
Psalm 25:15 ¶ Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalm 25:16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Psalm 25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Psalm 25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
David saw his feet snared in “the net.” This net is used to capture prey and is especially designed to entangle the feet. Satan is the tempter (Matthew 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:5). He capitalizes on our weaknesses and watches for the right moment to throw the snare down in our path. When we step into his net, he encloses it and takes us captive. While snared in one of Satan’s nets, he beats us mercilessly.
David was very acquainted with the “nets.” Consider the Psalms in which David complains of the “nets’ of the wicked (Psalm 9:15; 10:9; 25:15; 31:4; 35:7, 8; 57:6; 66:11; 140:5). Pray with David for all in Satan’s snare: “Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength” (Psalms 31:4).
David understood how Satan uses our sins to ensnare us in his nets: “Look upon mine affliction and my pain,” he pleaded, and supplicated: “and forgive all my sins” (Psalm 25:18).
If we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). He promised: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
The wicked that lay snares and serve Satan to entrap us will one day find their snare empty, and themselves taken in it: “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken” (Psalm 9:15).
In the valley, my heart rested in the shadow of His Cross, comforted by His grace and the mercy He secured for us by the blood He shed there. I heard the Spirit speak: “For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment” (James 2:13). The Lord Jesus then renewed His call: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me” (Luke 9:23). It was an easy lift, and I thought, the more “self” is denied the easier it is to bear the Cross.
I met Him at His table, He anointed my head with His oil and filled my cup with His grace. Goodness and mercy appeared and followed us into the harvest.
Praying for revival! 🙏
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