“YOU PRESERVE ME FROM TROUBLE!”

 Psalm 32:6-7                                (ESV)

    “[6] Therefore let everyone who is Godly

        offer prayer to YOU at a time when YOU may be found;

    SURELY in the RUSH OF GREAT WATERS,

        THEY SHALL NOT REACH HIM. 

    [7] YOU are a hiding place for me;

        “YOU PRESERVE ME FROM TROUBLE”;

        YOU surround me with shouts of deliverance.”

Recently while scanning through a social media account I noticed that someone had posted a song by Simon and Garfunkel entitled “Bridge over Troubled Waters”.  That song was reportedly released in 1970, so in those days, if it had “sounded good” I listened.  But the chorus to that song and the verses above fit very well together.  A “Bridge over Troubled Waters” doesn’t remove the turbulent stream, but it does provide a way for us to escape the danger! 

In this psalm David writes that BLESSED (Psalms 37:1-2) is the person who has his transgressions forgiven.  Why would a thrice HOLY GOD “choose” a vile, repugnant being such as me to be saved from the catastrophic choices that I have made in my life?  While it is TRUE that I may have to go through some turbulent times, GOD has displayed HIS abilities of SAVING me time and again.  HE Glories in proving to me and those around me that “YOU PRESERVE ME FROM TROUBLE”!

Do I deserve to be rescued OVER AND OVER again?  Scripture states in several places that NONE of us are righteous, NO NOT ONE!  “YOU PRESERVE ME FROM TROUBLE” because YOU have a Plan for me to fulfill, not because of my worthiness.  BLESSED and Highly Favored is the only reason I have to offer as to why “YOU PRESERVE ME FROM TROUBLE”!!!