Saving While There’s Still Time | Psalm 6:4–7
4 Turn, O LORD, deliver my life;
save me for
the sake of your steadfast love.
5 For in death there is no remembrance
of you;
in Sheol
who will give you praise?
6 I am weary with my moaning;
every night
I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my
couch with my weeping.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief;
it grows
weak because of all my foes.
David’s current state makes it
appear God left Him. In truth, God’s
omnipresent, but His favor and presence aren’t always felt for those not living
coram deo (in the presence of God). David repents, desiring to be right with the
Lord again, and he humbly presents his case for deliverance.
We can empathize with the depth
of David’s pain, weeping throughout the night over his situation. Death may be near for him, but he still wants
to serve the Lord. In Psalm 30:9, we
read, “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust
praise you? Will it tell of your
faithfulness?”
We need deliverance from the Lord.
The term David uses for “life” is soul, referring to both physical and
spiritual salvation. We deliverance from
our constrictive circumstances and the
sinful bondage within our souls. Man may
destroy the body, but the soul’s the Lord’s to handle (cf. Mt 10:28). Because Jesus Christ carries the sin of the
guilty, He can be merciful and gracious to even you (cf. Ex 34:6–7).
There is no hope
after we die. This is why you must
repent and believe today and call
others to do the same. The dead have no
opportunity to proclaim God to sinners or even repent in the next. As we read in Isaiah 38:18, “For Sheol does
not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not
hope for your faithfulness.” Therefore,
we must do the Lord’s work “while it is day; night is coming, when no one can
work” (Jn 9:4)—either the work of repenting and believing, or the work of
sharing His glorious gospel.
