"This One Thing" / Part 2

This One Thing / Part 2
Psalm 27:4
Scott Howard
November 11, 2012

A Brutal Assessment:

• David sees...Devastation / v. 10; Desertion / v. 12; Danger / v. 2-3
• Believers see...Conflict in our lives; Sin in the world; An adversary in Scripture

--> How do we navigate this fallen world?

A Single-Minded Appeal: The "One Thing" David Asks:

• David asked first for: God
• I want to experience the presence of God & to dwell with God.

The Benefits of the Appeal:

• God is Absolutely Sovereign...He is in charge, and He does not ever get caught off guard.  The word Sovereign is defined as this: having supreme pwer or authority; supreme, preeminent, indisputable (Webster's dictionary)
• God is Incomparably Beautiful...He is unparallelled, all beauty that we know comes from His beauty. 

These truths that David saw in shadow, we see in Jesus (the Light of the world).

The Relevance of the Appeal:

• What is Our "one thing"?
• Do we find God merely useful?
• Or Do we find God Beautiful?

Is He beautiful to us all the time?  His Beauty is always evident, but do we really want God, or just the things he can give us?

A Confident Assertion:

• We obtain our "one thing" not based on naive predictions, rather, we obtain our "one thing" based on rock solid promises.
• The Promise is through the sacrifice of Jesus so that we can have access to God and dwell with Him forever.

Psalm 27:13-14--- "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.  Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."

What we can take away from this message is that no matter what kind of trouble or hardship befalls us, we can rely on God because he is sovereign and He is sufficient.  Don't focus on the trouble or the circumstances, focus on God and His sovereignty. 

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world."  ---John 16:33