God is For Me
In verse 9 of this beautiful Psalm, David declares what he knows:
God is for me…
There are times when life seems to spin out of control when we don’t know what is going to happen next when we can’t find any answers to our problems. It is in moments like that, we need to remind ourselves of what we know, what we can be certain about. Like David, we can confidently confess, “This I know, that God is for me.”
There may be moments in life when we don’t have any answers. We might be saying, “I don’t know,” to all the questions that are coming at us. So, when we find ourselves in that position, what we can and should do is also say what we do know. “God is for me.”
On what basis can we make such a claim? Is that just wishful thinking on our part? If all we had to go on was Psalm 56 and what David said, then, yes, we wouldn’t have a lot of evidence to base that claim on.
But we have more.
We have so much more.
Christ, the Messiah, came into the world to be the fulfillment of Isaiah’s Immanuel promise. He came as “God with us.” Then, on the Day of Pentecost, another Old Testament prophecy came to pass. Christ sent the Holy Spirit to indwell the people of God. Christ became, not only God with us, he became God in us through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.
Paul, using some spiritual logic, reasons then, “If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, who will he not also with him graciously give us all things…” (Romans 8:31-32 – reading the whole chapter at this point would be helpful to put “God is for us” into gloriously proper perspective).
We can say, “God is for me,” precisely because in Christ He is God with us and God in us.
When everything looks bleak and you don’t know much, remind yourself of what you do know:
God is for me.
