KEEP ME AS THE APPLE OF YOUR EYE
Passage: Psalm 17:1~15
Key verse: 8
1. Kept through what your lips commanded (1-5)
Perhaps David's enemies laid charge against him. David cried to God to hear his prayer and to vindicate him. He had kept his heart from evil through God's commands and walked in God's way. How can we keep our heart and daily conduct from evil? By living according to God's word (Ps 119:9).
2. I will see your face (6-15)
David knows that God saves those who take refuge in him like himself. So he asks God to keep him as the apple of God's eye and hide him in the shadow of God's wings. His enemies surround to prey upon him like a hungry lion. But God's almighty hand can save him. David sees his enemies receive rewards only in this life. But by faith, David prays that he will see God's face after waking up from death and be satisfied. Prayer is not only a means of asking God to do what we ask him to do, but also a channel of our relationship with God that satisfies us.
Prayer: Lord, keep me from sin through your word and by your mighty hands, and help me to be satisfied by you, not by things of the world.
One Word: The apple of God's eye
Perhaps David's enemies laid charge against him. David cried to God to hear his prayer and to vindicate him. He had kept his heart from evil through God's commands and walked in God's way. How can we keep our heart and daily conduct from evil? By living according to God's word (Ps 119:9).
2. I will see your face (6-15)
David knows that God saves those who take refuge in him like himself. So he asks God to keep him as the apple of God's eye and hide him in the shadow of God's wings. His enemies surround to prey upon him like a hungry lion. But God's almighty hand can save him. David sees his enemies receive rewards only in this life. But by faith, David prays that he will see God's face after waking up from death and be satisfied. Prayer is not only a means of asking God to do what we ask him to do, but also a channel of our relationship with God that satisfies us.
Prayer: Lord, keep me from sin through your word and by your mighty hands, and help me to be satisfied by you, not by things of the world.
One Word: The apple of God's eye
