In the beginning, God created man in his own image. However, man drifted away from God’s ideal, and trouble shrouded the earth because of man’s sinful nature.
Man needed saving.
First, God created Mosaic Law, as he attempted to give his Chosen People a yardstick against which to measure their uprightness before him. The results were very inconsistent. The judges of Israel were cast aside for kings, and the kings repeatedly forced God’s people down paths of destructive behavior.
Man still needed saving.
Even the great men of God in the Old Testament recognized the travesty that man’s relationship with the Heavenly Father had become. There was no good thing to be found in the hearts of men, and there had to be another way.
In Psalm 7:1 David cried unto the Lord with a voice that echoed the need of man for all ages. “O Lord my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them who persecute me, and deliver me.”
David wrote his psalm at a time when Saul was attempting to kill him. However, his cry reflected a much larger need: Man’s innate desire for a Savior to rescue the downtrodden and weary from the vestiges of sin.
What was to be David’s answer? This psalm is a prophetic word, crying out for a Messiah to rescue the people of this world from the ravages of a broken relationship with God above.
David’s answer would come in the person of Jesus, the one who would come to save the world from sin and desolation, bringing life and refreshing to the weary and the hopeless.
David’s plea from the past was a plea for the future to come quickly. That future is here. We have our salvation with us today, if only we choose to accept it.
God has come in the person of Jesus, and he can live in our hearts today.
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