This is your daily reminder. God has not run
out of mercy, not for you, not today. Welcome
to the New Mercies Podcast. Welcome. Today is
Saturday, April the 4th, and I am excited to
share with you the Psalm of the Day. This is
a reading plan that we've been going through
as a church family. And today, before we celebrate
Easter Sunday, we have to read the Psalm. chapter
number 30. This is what we call our bonus days.
So if you need to get caught up on the reading
plan for the week, do that today. If you need
to just add a little bonus to you, Psalm chapter
30 is the way to go. If you are, again, I want
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below. But here's what we want to do today. I
want to focus in very clearly on what this Psalm
is. This is a Psalm of David, Psalm chapter 30,
Psalm of David. I'm not going to read a lot of
the text to you today. I do want to read the
second part of verse number five. So I'm going
to go ahead, in fact, and read that first. And
then I'm going to explain the Psalm a little
bit. Sometimes the Psalms can be a little bit
difficult to understand, a little bit difficult
to read. So here's a little bit of encouragement
for you today as you read it. Maybe I'm going
to give you a little framework so that you can
see it in maybe the little sections that it's
written in. But I just want to read the last
part of verse number five, because it is a really
sweet, really powerful text. Here it is in Psalm
chapter number 30, just reading the second part
of verse number five. Weeping may tarry for the
night, but joy comes with the morning. As I read
all of this chapter today, it's kind of broken
up in a few different ways. First off, the piece
I read was a a part of David's praise within
the psalm. He is a worshiper. That's who David
is. He's a warrior and a worshiper and a king.
And he's a shepherd and he has a lot to offer.
He has a lot to talk about, a lot of characteristics
about David. He's also very honest. If you read
the next couple of verses after he says that
joy comes in the morning, he gives this sort
of this proclamation of, I used to think I had
it all figured out and I didn't. I love the...
people in the Bible and how honest they are.
You know, David was one of the most honest guys
in the Bible when he would write. He would write
how terrible of a sin he just committed or how
he thought he had it all figured out and he had
no idea. I wish people today would be that honest.
I wish churches looked more like David's worship
than it did our polished, clean, look our best,
pretend like everything's okay kind of face.
David was a guy who was absolutely real. Now,
in this psalm, what you'll find, I want to help
kind of break it up, maybe give you a little
structure as you read it today. In the first
three verses, David talks about how much God
loves and cares and protects him. You can read
it in the first three verses, again, what God
has done for him and how it has been a protection
to him. He says, God has protected me. He has
taken care of me. And he says, I want to exalt
God for doing that. I just want to say thank
you. Thank you for your protection. Once he begins
to testify about the protection of God, guess
what happens? In verses 4 and 5, he begins to
praise God. That's what he does. Whenever we
start thinking about and counting the ways God
has protected us and God has loved us and rescued
us and pulled us out of the pit and brought us
into his family, once we start talking about
how he's protected us from all of those things
that are against us, nothing can get to you,
but it has to go through God first. You are invincible
until God is done with you. God is the one who
is protecting you. Once you start to realize
that, you get excited and you get fired up and
you start praising him, right? Verses four and
five are this Praise worthy things. Sing praises
to the Lord, David says. I'm going to sing praises
because he's awesome. He's protected me from
all this stuff. After he praised the Lord, guess
what happens? He begins to reveal who he is,
right? Verses 6 and 7, it is him giving this
moment of honest, real remembering and honest,
real. experience that he went through in his
life. He said, I was wealthy. I thought I had
it all figured out, but I didn't. I didn't. It's
the Lord that took care of me. David, if you
go back and look at the history of his life,
there was a moment where he got really sick,
like to the point of death, and the Lord rescued
him out of that. And it was after he was wealthy
and had all the stuff figured out. David went
through a lot of experiences that were raw and
real. thought he had everything. He was prideful
and arrogant enough to say, I don't need any
body. I've got everything I need right here.
And the truth is we all need the Lord, no matter
how much cash you have stored up, no matter how
much health you have in this moment, we all need
the Lord today. So after David talks about the
protection of God and how he cares for him and
loves him, then David begins to worship. He begins
to sing praises to the Lord. He begins to praise
him. Then he begins to see this real thing that's
going on. on in him. So he gets real honest and
very personal. And then after that, he moves
into this place of prayer, right? So this is
a natural progression. In the last part of the
chapter, verses 11 and 12, is where he begins
to proclaim the goodness of God. So here's what
happens. This is a natural progression. If you
begin to think about counting your blessings,
how good God has been to you, you'll be verses
1 through 3. God's done this for me. He's done
this for me. He's done this for me. And then
praise erupts, right? You begin to thank him.
Praise him for it. Sing your songs and shout
to the rooftops how great he is. Yes, there may
be weeping that's in the night, but joy comes
in the morning. He's proven it over and over
and over again. It's fantastic. Then you go into
this moment where you start to reveal who he
is, and then it reveals immediately who you are,
right? Isaiah did the same thing in chapter number
six of the book of Isaiah when he says, I see
the Lord. He's high and exalted. I see it. All
this stuff is amazing. And he says, whoa, I am
a man of unclean. lips. I am not who, I'm not
him. He's awesome and I am not. This is what
David goes through. This is what we all go through
whenever you have these moments with the Lord.
You start thanking him. He's protected you. This
is awesome. You praise him. Then you realize
how humility comes in and overwhelms you and
your life. Then after that, what do you do? You
pray, right? You pray, Lord, I'm so sorry. I
want to ask you for the, I want to. talk to you
about this. I want to get personal with you about
this. I want to cry out to you. That's verses
8 through 10. And then verses 11 and 12, after
the prayer is done, he just begins to proclaim
the goodness of our God. He says, here's what
you've done. You have turned my mourning into
dancing. He becomes a preacher. That's what he
does. He becomes one that's going to proclaim
it and share it to everybody. This is a great
psalm for a helpful pattern for all of us to
be able to walk through and understand. If we
start praising the Lord, it will end up turning
into this place where we repent a little bit.
We start saying, God, I'm sorry. I see areas
in my life that didn't look like you, and I was
dumb for doing them. I was dumb for thinking
I had it all figured out. And then you begin
to pray and just connect with him. Cry out to
him. Let your voice be heard to him. And after
your prayers are through, then you begin to proclaim
it to everybody around you. My suggestion to
you today, read the psalm a couple times. Maybe
even try it yourself. Try to think, what has
God been doing for you? Write down a couple of
things he's done for you. And then write down
some praises as you think about how great he
is. And then a few things that maybe you've not
allowed him to speak to in your life. A few things
you've not aligned with in your life. And then
just begin to pray about those things. Write
down a little prayer. God, I'm sorry for not
doing this. I'm crying out to you in this time
of hurt because I'm humiliated right now because
I'm not holy like you are and I've gone through
these issues, gone through these things. And
then you write a proclamation or a preaching
point and you share with somebody. If you've
got my phone number, put it in the comments below.
However you want to send me the message. Say,
here's what God has done for me. I want to share
it. I want to shout it from the rooftops. And
we'll see. I believe the more we do that, the
more people understand how great this God is.
That's the whole point. It's not getting your
story. It's getting his story. It's not getting
who you are. It's getting who he is. Let's tell
everybody how great this God really is.