40:1 David chose to dedicate his life and soul to the Lord, Psalm 40 explains the intimate reason why. As David endeavored in faith, patient for the blessing of God, he found that God heard him. God was attentive to his prayers, empathetic of his emotions.
40:2 God became active in David's life as well. He heard and cared but God also acted. He lifted David out of emotional and literal distress. He made a path for David to follow, a path of safety and purpose. God guided David with love.
40:3 God reanimated David. God brought David back to life. Our relationship with God begins a lifelong process of healing and restoration, blessing and love. David wrote about it and evidenced its truth. God put a song in David's mouth, his life. He changed the atmosphere from mourning to joy because God loves to build happiness in His children's lives. For this reason, David lived his whole life to praise God. To revere God. To trust Him. For God proved worthy.
40:4-5 Blessed is the person who chooses God as judge and authority in their life. David learned from experience that when he followed God and submitted to His will, his life blossomed and his soul found peace. A commitment to truth blesses one's whole life and all the relationships and elements of it. Those who seek to please God, rather than to please other humans, find God's wonderful works in their lives. We clear the way for blessings to land in our lives when we clear away the elements of deceitfulness and selfishness.
40:6-8 God never requires anything in exchange for His love and protection. Our relationship with God is based on love, our love for Him and His for us. David delighted in God's will, it was in his heart. We are in God's heart, and He is in ours.
40:9-10 David used his entire life as a stage and microphone for God's love and truth. Although his relationship with God was intensely personal, David knew it would benefit the world to know about it. Through his professions, he could help others come to God.
40:11-12 David prayed for God's tender mercies, loving-kindness and truth to continually persevere him. Because he knew that God could, and he knew that God would. It is a level a trust we must develop with God overtime, throughout life. It is God's pleasure to provide mercy, love and preservation to His children.
40:13-14 David prayed for God to deliver him, help him, and thwart his fears and enemies. Who else could we ever ask to do the same for us? As selflessly, as efficiently? As compassionately? Our relationship with God is unique. His omnipotence, and omnipresence and inexplicably abundant love for us affords us blessings we could never receive from anyone or anywhere else.
40:15 David prayed that at the end of a situation, the world would see that God had been moving and solving in his life all along. It is a truly beautiful thing to pray for. We trust God and much of the world does not understand why but we do; and we pray that one day, they will too.
40:16 David prayed for all of the pursuers of God. He prayed for us. He prayed that we would rejoice and have gladness in the generosity and mercy, compassion and power of our Spiritual Father. He prayed that we would love and appreciate the salvation our relationship with God provides. David prayed that God would be magnified. Exalted. He deserves it; the Lord is so worthy.
40:17 It astounded David that God would give attention to us, humble and meek as we are. Undeserving as we are. David was so grateful that God would love him, think on him, help him and deliver him.
"You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God."
David was so eager, so dependent upon God's presence in his life. Let David be our example of an intimate, authentic, steadfast, unbreakable relationship with God.
