Be Seen In Me

"Many will see and fear And will trust in the LORD." --- Psalms 40:3b

If people are not seeing Jesus Christ in my life then I am not fulfilling my duty and desire as a Christian. In verse 3 of today's subject passages, David proclaims that "many will see and fear and will trust in the Lord." This should be our ultimate goal in life. When we read verses like this, we should automatically go back and read the preceeding verses to find out how this result can be achieved. So let's look at the first 2 verses.

Verse 1 says, "I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me and heard my cry." This is always the first step. If we are ever to be victorious in the Christian Way of Life (CWL), we must first learn to be patient. This does not come naturally for us. According to Gal. 5:22, patience is a fruit of the Spirit. Therefore we must be "walking in the Spirit" (Gal. 5:16) in order to truly be patient. When we are forced to be patient and wait on God, we grow closer to Him because we realize the situation is entirely out of our control. We are forced to rely on God's promises.

Not only was David waiting patiently for the Lord, he also was crying out to Him. David was doing the only thing he could do...he was praying. The Lord heard David's prayer and "inclined" to him. In the Hebrew this word translated here in the NAS as "incline" is natah, which means "to stretch out", "to extend." God heard David's cry and "stretched out" to rescue him. This means there is nothing that David could do, he had to be totally reliant upon God to reach out to Him and answer his cry. David waited patiently for God to deliver him, and as always God was faithful.

Moving on to verse 2, "He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm." Once God answers David's cry, He then places David back firmly on the rock of Jesus Christ. God takes David out of the "miry clay" he was bogged down in and places him back on the only true stable foundation there is. David understands the only way he can have any stability in life is if he is firmly planted on the rock of Christ.

After David is rescued by God and placed back on the foundation of Jesus Christ, He proclaims in verse 3a, "He (God) put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God." David has seen God's faithfulness and Jesus Christ will be glorified through David's life because he now has his focus back on Him. God puts a "new" song in David's mouth because David has seen God's faithfulness in action. There is no time in my life where God is more real to me than when He faithfully answers my prayers. Anytime I see God's faithfulness in action and get my focus off myself and back on Jesus Christ, He is always glorified. It never fails. I can't help but sing a "new" song of praise to the Lord, it is a natural result. This is where David is in this verse, which is why he can boldly declare, "Many will see and fear And will trust in the LORD."

The same applies in your life. If you wait patiently for the Lord, He will "reach out" to you and place you firmly on the foundation of Jesus Christ. Once you see God's faithfulness in action in your life, there will be a "new" song in your mouth and Jesus Christ will be glorified. The key is to have patience and wait on God.