Psalm 102
When God is All You Have!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, July 26.
Have you ever called for help in a time of great pain and suffering? That is the situation with the psalmist, but he did not have a medical care system to call upon to assist him. His only 9-1-1 was prayer to God, and his emergency call was recorded in Psalm 102:1-2, “Hear my prayer, O Lord! And let my cry for help come to You. Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress; incline Your ear to me; in the day when I call answer me quickly.” As you continue to read today’s psalm, you will hear his suffering as he pleaded with God for relief. Unlike our contemporary culture today, he didn’t have immediate access to modern health care; God was his only hope for healing and pain relief.
It was the psalmist’s painful awareness of his own frailty which led him to make such an urgent petition, seeking hope from God during his time of need. Pointedly, the answer he received did not change his immediate circumstance, which is why the hope of Psalm 102:25-27 was quoted in Hebrews 1:10-12 as a messianic prophecy:
Of old You founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. Even they will perish, but You endure; and all of them will wear out like a garment; like clothing You will change them and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not come to an end.
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 102, meditating upon the living hope of Jesus Christ, in whom you can rejoice even when you are “distressed by various trials” (1 Peter 1:3-9). Pain does not have the last word, so train yourself to not let it consume your thoughts or hijack your life. When God is all you have, He is all you will ever need!
God bless you!
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