Psalm 119:124

Psalm 119:124 “Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees.”
 

We could not hope for a better situation than to be dealt with according to God’s love. What could be better than to be in the hands of a loving God? David is beginning to “see” his deliverance here. In the past few verses, he has been oppressed by the enemy, but he is now starting to see his way out of it.
 

Often, we look for God to pick us up out of a situation and place us on another piece of ground where we will no longer be in it. That may happen one day at His second coming. However, today we still need deliverance. Our deliverance does not come through changing our situation, but rather by changing us.
 

David prayed. “Deal with me.” My situation is not the problem. I am the problem. Or at least, the solution to the problem lies within me. Deal with me. This was an inward prayer. David saw that the things God can accomplish within us are what set us free. Then the situation does not even have to change in order for us to find deliverance. 

Deliverance comes in the form of God, and God is within us. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.” The comfort of the sufferer is the Lord Himself. When we suffer, we find the Lord in a more real way that we ever do in times of comfort. 
 

Our problem is that we begin to worship our comfort more than our God. When that happens, God removes us from our comfort zones. Then we begin to cry out to God. As all of our comfort fades away, we have no choice but to look within. When we look inside, we find God; hence, our deliverance. God removes the things we trusted in, in order to bring us back to Him. As risky as it may sound, “Deal with me according to Your love,” is the safest prayer one could pray.
 

Now let me encourage you to take some time to meditate on this verse; as you do, ask God to take you inward.  Continued