[:en]What did David do when he was experiencing water coming up to his neck, floods overflowing him while he sank in deep mire?
- He called for help and looked fo God (v. 3)
- He hoped in Him and let God work (v. 6)
- He wept and fast and put on sackcloth (v. 10)
What feelings did David experience?
- He was being mocked (v. 12)
- He was being scorned, disgraced and shamed (v. 19)
- His heart was broken (v. 20)
- He was in pain and distress (v. 29)
What were his requests to God?
- To answer him out of the goodness and love and mercy of the Lord (v. 17)
- To care, rescue and redeem him (v. 18)
- To pour out wrath upon his enemies (v. 24)
- To charge them with crime upon crime (v. 27)
- To blot them out of the book of life (v. 28)
- To protect him (v. 29)
- To let the poor see and be glad (v. 32)
- To hear the needy and not despise his captive people (v. 33)
- To save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah and let the people possess and settle there (v. 35)
Despite of his trials and sorrows, David still praise the name of God with a song and glorify Him with thanksgiving. (v. 30) Paul and Silas were suffering in jail at Philippi (Acts 16:16-34). They were humiliated, arrested and beaten with rods, But they sang praises to God and the jailer was saved.
When you are sinking during times of trials and sorrow, here is a threefold recipe for rejoicing: singing, praising and thanking God.
Psalm 69 is a messianic Psalm depicting the Lord Jesus Christ out of David’s suffering. God’s purpose of allowing His people to suffer was to mold and make them become more like Christ.[:]