I will Give Thanks Forever!

Psalm 30

This is a song that David wrote right after he took a census in 1st Chronicles 21. This displeased the Lord and a result of it a plague broke out amongst the people. After David repented of his actions he praised God for what he has done and his healing and saving hand.

Draw Me Out

We do not know if David personally was affected by the plague or if he was writing it for the people that were affected by it. Either way David wrote about God drawing him out of the pit of Sheol (Old Testament for the grave) and was saved by him. Have you ever been sick? It is not a fun thing but imagine being sick with a plague that was killing people. We see David put his hope in the Lord, he cried to him and he answered him. He cried for help and was healed. Our hope and faith needs to be in the Lord. He can heal you if it is his will to heal you.

We can look throughout the Old and New Testaments about how God healed people. We look at kings to poor people, God healed. But not just a physical healing, God heals the soul. He repairs the damage of sin to the soul and makes all things new. Physicians can heal the body but can not heal the soul, God can do both.

God is True Joy

In verse 3 we see David saying, “You restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.” We see that in verse 5, “Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes in the morning.”  And also in verse 11, “You have turned my mourning in dancing and,  you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.”

As Paul wrote in Philippians 4:6-7 that when we are weighed down with sickness or problems to lift our requests to God with thanksgiving and let his peace that surpasses all understanding which is in Christ Jesus be given to us. David knew about this peace and with that peace he could have true joy. He knew what this joy was about. He went from that place of horror and sorrow to a place of peace and security and joy. We can have an even greater peace and joy than David as we can cling to the author and finisher of our faith, Jesus Christ. We can go from an enemy of God to a child of God; from the place of hell to heaven.

We too can finish just like David wrote in vs 12, “O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!”