The Purpose of Delayed Help: Cultivating a Heart for God's Glory

Contents: Prayer for help for the godly and shame for enemies.

Characters: God, David.

Conclusion: God sometimes delays help to His own people that He might excite earnest desires on their part. A heart to love His salvation and to desire His glory before our own is a good earnest of the answer to prayer and of His good will toward us. Rest assured that the enemies of Christ will have wages for their work.

Key Word: Enemies, v. 2.

Strong Verses: 4.

Striking Facts: v. 3. These exclamations of exulting insolence were hurled at our Lord Jesus as He was accompanied to the cross. Our Savior caught in His ears the distant mutter of all the violent exclamations and felt the keen poisoning edge of every insult in His omniscience, as they cried “aha, aha.”

Brooks, K. (2009). Summarized Bible: Complete Summary of the Old Testament (p. 125). Logos Bible Software. (Public Domain)