I will thank you forever, because you have done it.
Psalms 52:9 (ESV)
“Won’t He do it?”
Lord, those are words we joyfully exclaim all the time when things are going great in our lives like when we have a breakthrough. They are words of praise that roll off our tongues as we bear witness to how You have either come through in our lives or the lives of the person or persons we are speaking to. What is not lost on me this day in this verse that David is reflecting upon how Doeg “snitched” on him, telling Saul where he was hiding out. It wasn’t a time of breakthrough but betrayal. It was not an instance where he was seeing You at work on his behalf, but one where he could very easily have asked why You let this happen.
Yet, instead David exclaims, “I will thank You forever, because you have done it.” After proclaiming in the future tense what You will do, he then declares that he will thank You forever because You have already done it. That’s faith!
Father, I want that kind of faith today, unwavering, undoubting, unmovable. I want a faith that is not shaken by my circumstances nor disrupted by the going ons around me. I want a faith that is firmly rooted and established in Who You are and who I am in Christ. Continue to feed my faith with Your Word. Continue to show me the areas that I need to let go of and let You do Your thing in. Show me where my belief is not strong enough and remind me that I am not my own, but am purchased by my Savior’s blood and sealed by the precious Holy Spirit until that day when You have completed Your work in me on this side of eternity. I will trust in You because You have done it in Christ! Amen!