Psalm 28 - A Psalm of Answered Prayer

Is God ever silent? Why does God sometimes seem not to hear us? David wonders the same thing.

To you, O LORD, I call;

my rock, be not deaf to me,

lest, if you be silent to me,

I become like those who go down to the pit.

To understand why sometimes God seems silent, we must remember that (1) God is doing something in us all the time, (2) God is doing something for us all the time, and (3) God is doing something in the world through us all the time.

Now, these three things are unchanging truths even when God is silent and we wonder what's going on. God has not forgotten us. God never forgets his people. He always hears them. He just does not always answer immediately, nor does he always give us what we want. This work that he is doing is more important than our immediate comfort. He does always give us what we need when we need it.

But there's much more in Psalm 28 than just that. The psalm also deals with the concepts of God's justice, judgment, and mercy and how we should deal with our enemies in the light of those things. What should the Christian response be to jihad, or ISIL, or ISIS, or Boko Haram? How should we pray? And what do we do, in the New Testament, with imprecatory prayers such as this that David prays in verse 4?

Give to them according to their work

and according to the evil of their deeds;

give to them according to the work of their hands;

render them their due reward.

Then we get into where the Church fits in God's program and in our lives and what this psalm has to say about that. And we always end with where Jesus is in the psalm, because that, after all, is the most important aspect.

I preached this sermon on Sunday, August 28, 2016 at the Winnsboro Reformed Church. I've included a link to the audio below. I hope it will be a blessing to you.


Click here: Psalm 28 Sermon