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I am praying to you because 
I know you will answer, 
O God. 
Bend down 
and listen as I pray. 
Show me 
your unfailing love 
in wonderful ways. 
By your mighty power you rescue those who seek refuge from their enemies. 
Guard me as you would guard your own eyes. Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
Psalms 17:6-8 NLT
What comes to mind for you in this song?
A person in need of rescue?
A person who knows God's character and God's love and at the same time is under massive pressure?
Or maybe it's the detail;
"guard me like you'd guard your own eyes"
Our eyes are soft, easily damaged, unrepairable, and important to us...
Maybe it's David's boldness in asking God to bend down, like a small child beckoning for a big person to get down on their level.
Maybe it's our need of rescue. To want to know the peace of being permanently covered by God, the shadow of his wings, the protection from the world, the choices of others. 
Yet at the same time, the fact that David is writing this song in this way, it shows he is not, at least not fully in that place. 
There is injustice.
Things aren't how they should be.
There is loss. 
Hurt.
Grief.
And even in that we can ask Him to bend down and listen...
#psalms
#psalm17
#onedayallwillbemadenew



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