did without Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy and hundreds and thousands, of others who supported them. In your moments of despair, you can join with other believers and say with David, “hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.”
We find the Psalmist accepting God’s promise of deliverance. Finally, as we come to a close in this passage, David moves from the pursuit of his dream and the depths of despair to the promise of deliverance. He says’ “Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.” Despite his feelings, David affirms a promise of God. He says, “yet will the Lord command...” “Yet” signifies that God will work in spite of what David’s enemies have plotted. God will work in spite of David’s circumstances. God will work in spite of David’s despair. No matter how dark the situation may look, God remains the same. The Bible tells us that he is the same today, yesterday, and forever. That is a promise. He does not change. He is the great deliverer that David sought. He is the great deliverer that the children of Israel sought while they were in Egypt. He is the deliverer that first century Christians looked for as they were being killed and persecuted. He
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