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None of us likes when someone is angry with us, and none of us likes to be rebuked and reprimanded and on the receiving end of a row.

We come to Psalm 6. The Scripture is so true to life no matter where you are reading. Let the living God bless you as you read this peace and do read Psalm 6.

David knew that God could become angry, and that he deserved to be rebuked. He did want to be rebuked when God was angry! "Do not punish me when you are angry. I know I have done wrong. I know I have sinned against YOU. Lord, do not be angry with me when you punish me." That is a different kind of prayer.

David - king of Israel - God's anointed servant - had sinned. He is in trouble. He is reaping a harvest from whatever bad seed he has sown. He wonders how far he has gone in angering God, and he cries and repents.

Be merciful to me. I am weak. Heal me. Whatever David had done physically is affecting him physically and spiritually! He is pining away.

Spiritual suffering can be intense at times. This is not an area we mention often, but it is just as real today as in David's day.

When people close themselves to God and shut their ears to the voice of Jesus, and refuse the promptings of the Holy Spirit, there can come that realisation that there is something terribly and seriously wrong, and not only with an individual, but in a nation.

People are very much aware that there is something seriously wrong just now.

David has been hit hard as a result of his sin. He pleads his weakness and asks for God's love. His roots are in streams of water. He knows that in God there are hidden resources, and so he appeals to God.

This is all very personal and intimate as he throws himself upon the mercy of God - Let your Judgement be tempered with Mercy!

In his weakness and in his shame he knows that he is still God's anointed king, and that the Lord will minister to him in his need.

We can become faint and weak. That happens when we try to live without God, as an individual, or a nation.

This is the burden many are carrying just now for the leaders of the nations who think they can get out of the present turmoil without the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, crucified and risen. We need these words, because there are so many false representations of the only God there is. Derek prince used to speak about the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of God, because he found that people had their own ideas of Jesus and who Jesus was.

v.4 - How long, O Lord? How long am I going to be like this? How long is this going to last?

David knows that his gracious God will come to him and heal him and bless him, but he does not know when God will come. We too struggle with how long God will wait before He comes to deliver us. There is a word here about the duration of suffering.

Every Psalm may not put a smile upon our face, but may breathe Peace and Satisfaction to our mind and heart.

Save me and rescue me! How can a man pray at such times - he must! He also knew that God was not with him. David is deeply troubled. He knows that a holy God will not tolerate SIN!

Turn and come to me and deliver me. Stop your turning away from me. His hope is in God. He is waiting for God to come and deliver him and release him and set him free.

Five times in these verses David calls upon the name of the Lord. Recall the words of that hymn beloved by many – "How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear - It soothes his sorrows heals his wounds and drives away his fear." We can plead for deliverance because of the character of God - His Loving Kindness. David was a man who would never give up.

"Preachers of old would traverse the territory of the Psalms. They flow with milk and honey, but NOT to strangers". Make sure you are not a stranger with regard to the mercy and grace and love of God as revealed in Jesus Christ, His Son, our Saviour and Redeemer and Lord.

"'Winging It" from Stan Smith

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