Psalm 40 - 7 Day Devotional - Day 3

Psalm 40:6 to 8 By Lisa Naumoski

Delighting in the Lord and trusting in his hand at will only comes with trusting in him alone and not through the works, sacrifices and offerings. This kind of trust was not always so easy for me when I was thought differently and didn’t know who Jesus was or believed in his amazing grace even after he saved me.  I used to believe in lies of fear or superficial ways, by trusting in sacrificial idols thinking these things would deliver me out of dark pit I dug myself into. It took a long time for me to believe in God who created and rescued me and what it meant to be saved by the sacrificed lamb who paid for our sins on the cross. I felt I owed him but the debt was paid and finished.

Only God can save and protect us and not interested on religious and man made ritual laws but rather on the heart and living a life from submission to him and Jesus alone.  Once 

I realized it is by grace I was saved  . I didn’t need to go one works and only had to surrender my heart the only blood covenant, our lamb Jesus who came and sacrificed it all. 

In Psalm 40 David gives deep thankful glory to God for rescuing him from the deep dire of the dark pit by giving him a life of saving rescue. He raises the issues around the way of believing in verse 6-8 on how to respond about slaughtering sacrifices and offering animals. Blood for blood to be saved. It’s like saying “thanks for saving me but here is another one of your living that I offer in sacrifice for my saving grace. No thanks! This doesn’t work because the debt is already paid in the blood covenant through Jesus. 

We are of reminded of the true blood covenant from God in Hebrews 9 highlighting the old and new and Jesus as our mediator of the better blood covenant with whose sacrifice will provide us eternal redemption and forgiveness of our sins rather from old and temporary sacrifices. 

If we go back earlier to David’s pre submissions as he surrenders his heart and faithful hope and trust in God and says in Psalms 16:5-11, 

Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”

Then in psalm 18:1-3 he reaffirms his trust by saying, 

“I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,  my God, my rock where I seek refuge, my shield  and the horn of my salvation,  my stronghold. I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,  and I was saved from my enemies. ”

David’s full trust in knowing who shielded him from his enemies built generations of believers to this moment  Let’s magnify and continue to exalt in his name calling “Holy Holy Holy is the Lord all mighty who is and is to come!” 

Lord as we continually praise and trust you in your salvation. We have been redeemed by our Jesus the blood of the lamb. We take courage from you our living God and remember where our true salvation is from. 

As we stand firm on this hope, we believe in our saving grace by offering our hearts alone. You take our shame and save us through forgiveness of our sins. We can claim firmly on this as our final offering of the covenant with you and ask for your cover of protection.

We are all your daughters and wait patiently through our daily prayers for your kingdom to come and your will be done. We lift up Michelle, Sarah, Ryan and Stephanie as they prepare their stories of redemption and your proven glory in their lives. We ask for hearts to be stirred, renewed and refreshened by the Holy spirit with a hope that runs like a river where we may boast and magnify in our only saviour Jesus Christ. 

Amen