Lord, I Am Coming

Meditations on the Psalms

August 10, 2022

Lord, I Am Coming

“My heart has heard you say,

“Come and talk with me.”

And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming”

Psalm 27:8

In reading Psalm 27, I am reminded of one of the qualities I admire in the Apostle Paul, his single-minded purpose. He told the Athenians, “In (God) we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28 NRSV), and he summarized his ministry in Corinth as, “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). His devotion to Christ sustained him through very difficult times.

The psalmist David expresses a similar single-minded devotion to God in Psalm 27. His prose, as in verse 4, expresses his heart’s one desire: “The one thing I ask of the Lord—the thing I seek most—is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.”

Some scholars have suggested this psalm may have originally been two psalms because of the shift in tense at verse seven. In the first six verses, the psalmist speaks about God, and in verse seven he begins speaking to God. I think this shift is intentional and expresses an excellent pattern for prayer.  In the first portion of the prayer, the psalmist rehearses his personal convictions, his personal core values. Having thus established a firm foundation for his faith, he then makes his petitions to God. We too can formulate our own prayer using this pattern.

My Takeaway: I believe one of the greatest lines in all of scripture is verse 8,

“My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.”

And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.”

I believe the Lord desires all his children to hear Him say, “Come and talk with me.” And it is the desire of God’s heart to hear us respond, “Lord, I am coming.”

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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