May 30, 2018 - Suggested Reading Psalm 10 for June 3rd’s message on Matthew 3:1-17 in the 2nd Service

“The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations will perish from his land.”

Psalm 10:16 (NIV)  

We sing in our services that Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords,
but do we pray like we believe it?

David prayed like he believed it.

This prayer psalm starts with a question that reveals an underlying expectation that God is a King who intervenes in our daily lives on earth.

David then describes the wicked, their prosperity, their victims and – get this - their disbelief that God will notice and do anything to them on earth.

 We shudder when David prays for God to break the wicked man’s arm, and yet that is exactly what the helpless need done.

When I think of the few stories told me about the wicked things done to helpless people, I think to myself this is the only righteous prayer for what other prayer would be a prayer of faith to the
King of kings?

This prayer ends with a statement that God is the King forever and ever, and that He does what all righteous kings do for their subjects- he gives the afflicted a hearing, and He defends the fatherless and oppressed.

Oh, that we would have the faith of David to pray like we believe our
Lord is the King of this land today!