Psalm 130 – Out of the depths I cry to You, Lord; 2 Lord, hear my voice. Let Your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. 3 If You, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? 4 But with You there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve You. 5 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in His word I put my hope. 6 I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. 7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption. 8 He Himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.
“Out of the depths I cry to You, Lord!”
When I ask for forgiveness I find that it has been prepared and waiting for me before all of creation. Because of Your love for me You are always listening for me!
“If You, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?”
If You Lord did not cast the memory of our sins from You then no-one could even approach you to repent, and certainly all would perish.
“But with You there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve You.”
But within Your loving grace, by the force of Your will, my sins are vanquished from Your memory. Because of who You are I can, in respect and with great reverence and love, serve You.
“I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in His word I put my hope.”
In the morning when my eyes open, all that I am first looks for Your beauty to trust in. Your Word, revealed to me by Your Spirit, is the storage room for all my hope.
“I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning!”
More sure than the arrival of morning I know that Your love and protection are with me every day. More sure than the morning is Your love and protection! It is You I long and wait for!
“Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption.”
Christian, we put our love, our confident hope, in the Lord. For His love never fails and at every step we walk into the new and fresh beauty that it is. His love is not an incomplete love but is complete, and those who walk in it find that freedom flows from it.
“He Himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.”
God Himself is our Helper and Savior and not is anyone or anything else. Always, without exception, He alone is our Rescuer! Though our sins are a free flowing fountain, greater are the depths of the pit that the Lord casts them, not us, into! Thank you Lord Jesus! Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.