Consider My Troubles Psalm 31:7

7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;



Have you ever gone to bed wondering how you were going to make it though the next day? Have you ever had pressures coming from everywhere and you felt as if life was closed in on you and there was no where to go? David knew that kind of pressure. Even though he was God's chosen, and God's hand was upon his life, he knew the pressures of life and the difficulties that life can throw at us. David spent a number of years running from men who sought to kill him. He spent several years running from King Saul and his army. There was a bounty on his head. He had trouble sleeping at night. His life was far from a storybook experience.

Listen to David as he cries out for God to help him. "I trust You Lord, never let me be ashamed. Deliver me in Your righteousness. Hear me" David cries out! "Deliver me speedily. Pull me out of the net that they have laid for me." David is experiencing the difficulties of life. He needs help and he needs help now. David does what we need to do. He carries his burdens and his troubles to the Lord, who is his strength and his rock and his fortress. Listen to David, "5Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth." David laid his life into his Father's hands. Jesus did the same thing on the cross at Calvary.

It is in the crucible of difficulty that our true character comes out. When we can reach up and take the Lord by the hand in times of difficulty and walk with Him and trust Him to be our rock and our fortress and allow Him to be our protection and our provider no matter what obstacles we may face, then we will find peace that passes all understanding because God will deliver us just as He delivered David and so many others so many times. God wants us to take Him by the hand and walk through life with our hand firmly locked into His. When we are willing to do that, there is nothing that shall ever be able to snatch our hand out of His! Nothing!

David prayed to God, "Consider my troubles" and God did exactly what David asked Him to do. He will do the same for you and for me if we will just ask Him to do so.