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March 20, 2005
In the early morning hours, a night watchman anxiously awaits the light’s first glimmer that signals his duties’ end. Psalm 130 compares that same desire to the soul’s utter longing for God. Reflecting on three of the Psalms of Ascents, Alistair Begg teaches us of the contentment we find from seeking the Lord. With a willingness to submit to His Lordship, we can be united with Him through our forgiveness by faith in Jesus Christ, and our souls’ longing can be fulfilled.
1“Greatly1 have they pafflicted me qfrom my youth”—
rlet Israel now say—
2“Greatly have they pafflicted me qfrom my youth,
syet they have not prevailed against me.
3tThe plowers plowed uupon my back;
they made long their furrows.”
4The Lord is righteous;
he has cut vthe cords of the wicked.
5May all who hate Zion
be wput to shame and turned backward!
6Let them be like xthe grass on the housetops,
which ywithers before it grows up,
7with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
8nor do those who pass by say,
a“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We bbless you in the name of the Lord!”
1Out of cthe depths I cry to you, O Lord!
2O Lord, hear my voice!
dLet your ears be attentive
to ethe voice of my pleas for mercy!
3If you, O Lord, should fmark iniquities,
O Lord, who could gstand?
4But with you there is hforgiveness,
ithat you may be feared.
5I jwait for the Lord, kmy soul waits,
and lin his word I hope;
6my soul mwaits for the Lord
more than nwatchmen for othe morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
7O Israel, phope in the Lord!
For qwith the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8And he will rredeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
1O Lord, my heart is not slifted up;
my eyes are not traised too high;
I do not uoccupy myself with things
too great and vtoo marvelous for me.
2But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned wchild with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3xO Israel, hope in the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore.
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