Psalm 43
February 14
If you didn’t know better, you
might just think you were reading something by the Apostle John in this passage
of Psalm 43, especially verse 3: “Oh,
send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; let them bring me to Your
holy hill and to Your tabernacle.”
Light
and truth went hand in hand in John’s writing, making Psalm 43 a prophetic
psalm. Like the psalmist, Jesus surely felt frustrated being in an “ungodly
nation” even though He was born into God’s chosen people. Nevertheless, He came
to His own and they did not receive Him.
If you ever feel like you are
stumbling in the dark, not knowing what direction you should go in, just keep
practicing the truth you do know and walk in the light that you see. 1 John 1
says, “5b…God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6If we say
that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do
not practice the truth. 7But
if we walk in the light as He is in
the light, we have fellowship with
one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8If
we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in
us.”
What
happens however is that we don’t always walk in the light or follow the truth
and then wonder later on why we are stumbling over things that we should have
seen. We often will lose our our joy, our song (Ps. 43:4) and our countenance
is not as bright (43:5).
How much is light and truth leading
you in your walk? Jesus said that “But he
who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God” (John
3:21).
