In life there are many turning points and new beginnings. Opportunities to change, and improve our characters; New Years is one of them and everyday is the opportunity we most often receive.
Every year I read many books of the Bible, yet, somehow every year along with those books, I read Psalm and Proverbs again. God’s word is a never ending fountain that continues to give no matter how many times you’ve read a certain passage. Each time you read is a new opportunity for the Holy Spirit to reveal something pertaining to your soul. As I was reading, I read Psalm 52, which seems short and perhaps not too important considering it’s one of David’s “rants” and complaints against the “mischevious man” with the “deceitful tongue”. The way the chapter ended, however, impacted me.
Psalm 52 verse 9 says:
I reread it to myself and wondered. Sometimes there are times when you don’t know what to pray for because you know so many times you’ve prayed for something that wasn’t for you or wasn’t God’s will. Then sometimes you begin to wonder if you just lack faith…Sometimes we do lack faith and we resign ourselves. We are not like the woman that bothered the judge until she got what she felt she needed (in the case that it is God’s will and we just need to exercise faith and ask)… The words that impressed me the most were “because thou hast done it”, I couldn’t figure it out, but I knew it was something definite. When you say someone has done it, it’s final and accomplished.
Finally, I took my inquiries to the Bible Commentary (with comments from Ellen G. White) where I read that this was David praising God, he writes about how His name is good before the saints because He is merciful and loving. He also writes “because thou hast done it”, this phrase demonstrates David’s utmost faith that God had already answered his petition and that now all he needed to do was as he wrote “wait on thy name”. Let us each when we pray, take this simple lesson from David, it’s the simple lesson of faith and knowing that God is always in control and He has heard our prayer. Not only has He heard it but He has done it.
“…because thou has done it…” Psalm 52:9
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