Save me, O God!

Psalm 69

In Psalm 69 I believe David is crying out to God to help him in his faith. In verse 4 he says:

“Those who hate me for no reason outnumber the hairs on my head. Those who want to destroy me are mighty. They have no reason to be my enemies.”

I think this is a place we all reach in our faith walk. We stand up for our God, and our faith in Him as Christians, and others try to make fun of us, and smack down our beliefs. Whether it’s removing Bibles and prayer from our schools, or it’s taking the words “in God we trust” off our currency, or any of the hundred other ways taking place in our country and abroad today.

As Christians we need to be strong in our faith. We need to be the disciples in Christ that He wants us to be, regardless of those who work to destroy us and our faith. Christians are being killed today in many foreign countries, especially in the Middle East. Our prayers need to be with them. In our country I don’t think anyone, because of their faith, is losing their lives; but being a Christian and standing up for Christ  is not easy sometimes.

In my College days my faith was shaky, even though I had grown up in the Methodist Church. Unfortunately, I allowed the professors to take my faith away, and when I graduated I felt I didn’t need God’s help. Thank God my wife’s faith brought me around! I was the sheep that had gone astray!

Like all of us, David needed assurance, and a strong relationship with God, to give him the power in his faith to fend off those who hated him, and wanted to destroy him.

Prayer: Father, help us to be strong in our faith, and to share the good news with others. Amen.

Written by Jim Kunkle