Witness, He Will Lead You
Psalm 32:8
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.”
I read both Psalm 31 and 32 and at the right time, too.
I’m sure we’ve all opened our eyes and saw a message right in front of us where we felt in our heart, “That was You, God, wasn’t it?”
Yep.
That’s what I got from these verses.
In Psalm 31, in a nutshell, we see David clinging to God in a moment of fear, betrayal, and exhaustion but even through that all.
He still trusts in God.
Above all the coiling anxiety and chaos he trusts in God.
Why?
Because why else would we turn away from Him?
God has saved us in so many ways!
Time and time again!
God is always there when you need him most—
Though he may be silent!
You know better.
So did David.
Daivd, like us, was overwhelmed and asks God to be the place he can collapse safely.
He admits his limits (as we all do in that vulnerable moment) and hands over the timeline of his life to God (which some of us avoid in doing.)
David feels unseen and unheard and discarded by people around him (as with social media, family, friends like most of us do.)
But instead of still trying to control the situation, he surrenders it all to God—Not because he feels incapable, but because he knows God is the steady wave.
God knows how to work through all of this.
He has conquered the world.
Do not fear the troubles.
And at the end of the verse, what do we read?
Praise be to the LORD, for he showed me the wonders of his love when I was in a city under siege. In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help. Love the LORD, all his faithful people! The LORD preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.” –Psalm 31:21-24
It ends in COURAGE!!
All the fear David must have felt!
But He says to David—Us! “Keep going even when your heart is tired. You don’t have to hold everything together. Let Me hold you—I got you!”
And Psalm 32 is that moment.
…
The shift.
From heavy to free.
“Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD’s unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him. Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!” –Psalm 32:10-11
David describes the deep relief of being clean before God.
The weight of his silence finally lifted.
Because hiding your truth creates inner decay.
The devil feeds off of this.
Keeps you small—keeps you hidden.
Keeps you from being whom God is calling you to be!
But once you confess!
Confess!
You break the chains.
You flip the table at which the devil feeds you.
And when he says that God is his hiding place, he doesn’t mean it as you think.
He means it as his shelter who surrounds him with protection fiercely.
God will not lead you astray—God will lead you with direction that aligns with who you are meant to be!
Because confession is not humiliation –It is liberation!
If God was saying one thing through all of this, it’s this, “You don’t have to hide from Me. I already know, and I’m still choosing you.”
So, please, whatever fear you have that God will not love you as you are, begone with it, because God loves you more because that is WHO YOU ARE!
Oh, how beautiful it is to be loved in all our brokenness!
That is our God!
PRAISE!!
