When Christians inform about God’s mercies to them, it gives super encouragement to others who’re looking for to reside by religion. In Psalm 34:6, we discover simply such a sworn statement: “This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.” Three transient observations about this verse will function useful reminders for our Christian stroll.
First, all of us have troubles. Nobody in our households, workplaces, or church buildings lives a trouble-free life. If we have been to take time to truthfully naked our souls earlier than each other, we might every fill books with the difficulties we’ve seen. Monetary troubles, bodily troubles, household troubles, religious troubles, emotional troubles, psychological troubles—irrespective of how properly we placed on the make-up, irrespective of how properly we tie our ties, human beings are naturally troubled folks. And it’s as a result of we’re troubled those that we love to listen to the testimonies of how different troubled folks, like David, have discovered hope.
Second, all of us have to cry out. In fact, we by no means will cry out till we, like David, come to a poverty of spirit. So long as we keep a pretense, so long as we persuade ourselves that each one is properly, we reside a lie. However when for a second the poverty of our spirit grips us, then we’ll be ready to cry. “I sought the LORD,” David says (v. 4). We ought to hunt Him too. The Lord Jesus urges us, “Ask, and it will likely be given to you; search, and one can find; knock, and it will likely be opened to you” (Matt. 7:7). We are able to cry out to God with confidence that He’ll look after us; and so, as the author of Hebrews encourages us, “allow us to then with confidence draw close to to the throne of grace, that we might obtain mercy and discover grace to assist in time of want” (Heb. 4:16).
Lastly, all of us want solutions. No mom or father value their salt ever turns a deaf ear to the cry of their youngster. And the promise of Scripture is that the ear of God is ever open to the cries of His kids (Ps. 34:15). He can pick every cry within the immensity of the world. He hears your cry, He is aware of your voice, and He can identify your identify.
Immediately, should you’ve not performed so already, take a quiet second to be trustworthy in regards to the troubles that confront you, then be part of David in crying out to God, trusting that He’ll reply. Certainly, in some ways, He already has, by giving us the counsel of His written Phrase, the Bible, and the salvation bought by the incarnate Phrase, His Son Jesus. As we depend on His good items, might our testimony more and more develop to reflect that of David: “The LORD … he answered me and delivered me from all my fears” (Ps. 34:4).
This text was tailored from the sermon “‘This Poor Man Cried’” by Alistair Begg.
