My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Psalm 62:5
David’s quill strikes the parchment. Listen as his soul pours out his trust and confidence in God and God alone – while his son Absalom is in pursuit to overthrow him from his position as king. The only way for a king to be replaced is in his death through secession in lineage through a son or parallel through a sibling. At any rate, for the throne to be passed on, the king must die.
Absalom’s motivation and justification for overthrowing his father was David’s affair with Bathsheba, the death/murder of Uriah the Hittite, Bathsheba’s husband, and David’s loose handling of Ammon, Absalom’s half-brother when Ammon raped their sister Tamar. Thinking he could give the people better justice than his father, Absalom seeks to overthrow David from the throne and kill him.
In this powerful Psalm, David pens these words so many of us struggle with: “My Soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.” In other words, “my outcome rides on him.”
Who or what are you facing today? What has you bound, troubled, concerned, disturbed, bothered, or worried? What has you in spiritual hiding or on the run? If you are like me, you have exhausted all your abilities and means trying to calculate yourself a way out of this.
We tell ourselves, “Somehow I will salvage my business, church, ministry, family, health, and/or strength.” There comes a time when you have to realize it is far beyond your power or pay grade to take care of, fix, or bring back together what has been taken from you or is in the process of falling apart. Could it be that it is time to be like David and say, “My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him?”
Our prayer for you this week: May you come to rest in the Lord today for He has the perfect outcome already in place for you.
