Bible Wonders - Circle of Trust

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises, but the stars never fall?

Why dry land is never satisfied by water? And why fire never says enough? God just had me this Sunday morning. I was sitting there, and God just put it on my heart. I love the 16th Psalm, and maybe you're familiar with the part of it that a lot of us quote all the time, in His presence is His fullness of joy. That comes at the end of the 16th Psalm. And so I was like, God, I just love that. What's the context of that?

Where did all that come from? And so I went and began to study the 16th Psalm, and God even convicted me to memorize it so I could just put the whole thing in my heart, you know, so that I would be prepared to keep from sinning, so to speak. But anyway, so the first verse of the 16th Psalm—are you ready for this? I just blew me away. It's a mictum of David, by the way, and I could speak for a while on what a mictum is. It's really neat. I love words that nobody can translate.

That just flips my switch. So here's Robbie's quick version of what a mictum is, a very deep truth that's been written down, okay? So it's a mictum of David, and what he said, really simple verse, it says, Preserve me, O God, for in you do I put my trust.

Circle of trust, right? But see, that word, preserve, is super beautiful when you think about the prayer, that what David's saying and what sets up the whole idea if he gets to be in his presence is fullness of joy. It's like this concept of keep my fire burning. In fact, keep the fire burning that's burning living water, if you're really to get into what that means, which is almost like shalom. But what a cool thing to pray for those who you love.

Like, for me, I just prayed it all week. Like, man, keep Tammy's fire, keep her all lit up, and help her to trust in you, Lord, because if you're in his circle of trust, man, you know, you could go down the staircase. You know, you've got that going on in this whole idea. And so, to just think about a circle, because if you were to look at the word trust in Hebrew, you're not going to be probably terribly surprised that in the middle of the word, and it's only in three letters, is this psalmic, and it is the key idea of the whole thing. And so let's talk about circles for a minute, okay? Circles have everything to do with trust. When you put on a wedding ring, it's a circle, okay? It's a sign of infinity.

It always has been. But also, what does the earth do? It goes in circles.

And so does every, by the way, electron and goes around a proton, a neutron. Every atom of your body is involved in a circle. You don't think God loves circles? I'm just telling you, He's all into circles. I mean, everywhere you look, you can't miss the circles. So you want to trust that the sun's going to come up tomorrow? Well, we're going in a circle.

It's coming up, I'm telling you. It has everything to do with circles. And there's just no accident whatsoever that this word has centered on this concept of the psalmic. So really, really cool little note in the Psalms for all you car salesmen out there.

You may have heard the word acrostic. In other words, King David loved to write Psalms, and he loved to do it with the Hebrew letters. And so the 119 Psalms are a famous one of people thinking, okay, it starts out with an olive, and it goes through all the different letters.

Well, a little lesser known, but really, really cool Psalm is the 145th Psalm, and it too is an acrostic. However, David left one letter out of that Psalm. He left the letter Nun out. And the reason he did was because he felt fallen, and the Nun has to do with being fallen. Okay, so by the way, if you go to christiancarguy.com, I noted this.

I'll show you the Hebrew, and all the stuff is so cool. That what King David did was he—the letter Nun comes right before the letter Psalmic. So he skipped the Nun in the 145th Psalm and went straight to the Psalmic. And what he said in the next verse was, Yahweh upholds all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.

You see how cool that is? It's like—and when it says uphold, that word starts with the Psalmic, and so it's the same idea of David knew that even when we fall, right, here comes God. He is going to uphold you, because, you know, that's the whole idea of the circle of trust. I mean, he brought David back into the circle, so to speak.