In Psalms 30:6-7 David said,
“When I was prosperous, I said, “Nothing can stop me now!” Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain. Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.”
When I read this I started laughing because it’s very relatable, “I was good and then…….I wasn’t”. When you read verses like, “Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered,” it’s important to remember that the Old Testament is a different time period than the time period ushered in by the resurrection of Jesus. The presence of God with man was different with David than it is with us.
You used to have to go to the temple to worship God and be near his presence. This is why in Psalm 27:4-5 David wrote,
“One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.”
A lot of people still think that you need to go to a building to meet with God, but the truth is that we the believer have become the place where God dwells.
In 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Paul writes,
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.”
Jesus said in John 14:15-17 says,
“If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth.”
Jesus went on in verses 23 and said,
“Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”
You don’t want to get too caught up in the, “Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered,” mindset. Instead let’s get into the, “When I was prosperous, I said, “Nothing can stop me now!” Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain”. Jesus said it like this in Matthew 11:11,
“Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”
John the Baptist was the greatest of the Old Testament and that is because of who he ushered in. But the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than the greatest of the Old Testament because of the Spirit of God in them. So then, be as secure as a mountain for the presence of God is in you.