My Lord and my Savior

Psalm 38:1-22 TNIV

Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger

or discipline me in your wrath.

Your arrows have pierced me,

and your hand has come down on me.

Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;

there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

My guilt has overwhelmed me

like a burden too heavy to bear.

My wounds fester and are loathsome

because of my sinful folly.

I am bowed down and brought very low;

all day long I go about mourning.

My back is filled with searing pain;

there is no health in my body.

I am feeble and utterly crushed;

I groan in anguish of heart.

All my longings lie open before you, Lord;

my sighing is not hidden from you.

My heart pounds, my strength fails me;

even the light has gone from my eyes.

My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;

my neighbors stay far away.

Those who seek my life set their traps,

those who would harm me talk of my ruin;

all day long they scheme and lie.

I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,

like the mute, who cannot speak;

I have become like one who does not hear,

whose mouth can offer no reply.

Lord, I wait for you;

you will answer, Lord my God.

For I said, “Do not let them gloat

or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”

For I am about to fall,

and my pain is ever with me.

I confess my iniquity;

I am troubled by my sin.

Many have become my enemies without cause;

those who hate me without reason are numerous.

Those who repay my good with evil

lodge accusations against me,

though I seek only to do what is good.

Lord, do not forsake me;

do not be far from me, my God.

Come quickly to help me,

my Lord and my Savior.


My thoughts -

When we speak of God and of Jesus we often use the phrase Lord and Savior. But do we know what we are saved from? This psalmist seems to.

Look at the distress in this psalm. The psalmist begs God for mercy. He says he has been pierced and broken. He has nothing left. He has been humbled and brought low before the Lord. He knows that he can not endure by his own strength. He's got nothing left. He's hit rock bottom. He even says he is "utterly crushed". We say sometimes that the things we endure may break us but he hasn't just been broken but crushed.

This psalmist is overrun and overwhelmed. He is pierced, broken, and crushed. He is grieving. He is racked with guilt. His sin and his enemies have gotten the best of him and he can't take it any more but is powerless to save himself.

So here he comes, humbled and repentant before God confessing his sin and asking, no, begging for mercy.

Lord, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God. Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.

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