Jul 1996 - Notes On Psalm 6 - Bible Studies 1964

by John Miller | Category: Voices From The Past | Jul 1996

The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth (Ex. 34:6; Nah. 1:3). Asaph asks the question, 'Who may stand in Thy sight when once Thou art angry?' (Ps. 76:7). We read of God being angry with Israel again and again, being angry with Aaron, with Solomon, and others. Indeed He thought to reject Israel at the time of the golden calf, and to have slain Aaron, but Moses interceded for both.

David in his sore plight in this psalm says,

Have mercy upon me, 0 LORD; for I am withered away:

O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

My soul also is sore vexed:

Return, 0 LORD, deliver my soul.

These words bear some resemblance to David's experience during the months that he was under conviction over his sin in the matter of Bathsheba (Ps. 32: 3,4). But how loth he was to confess what he had done! It is ever so with us. How truly the behaviour of Adam and Eve after they had sinned has come down to us through all the intervening centuries and generations, that of hiding ourselves with our sin upon us, and also of blaming some other person or cause for our sin, rather than acknowledging our guilt! David was quick to condemn the man to death in Nathan's parable, but how terrible were the words of the prophet that fell on David's ears, 'Thou art the man'!

John Miller | Jul 1996
Voices From The Past