LOOK ON MY AFFLICTION AND DELIVER ME ...

Look on my affliction and deliver me,
For I do not forget Your law. Psalm 119:153

Yea, how I need the Lord to look upon my affliction.
Even more do I need His look to be continuous, for such are my afflictions, such is my need for His deliverance to be continuous.
Whatever the afflictions that are without me, they are but a messengers of the greater afflictions that are within me.
All such afflictions that come to me by the hand of those who lie, deceive, betray, or reject me, they are but messengers of the lying, deceiving, betraying and rejecting that takes place continuously within my own sinful heart.
These afflictions are too much, too continuous, I want them to end that I might have peace, that I might not struggle, that I might look at the Law of the Lord and be at peace with it.
Surely my afflictions within and without, like their mother that bore them - my own sinfulness, do not stop.
Even as my own heart accuses me, it does so from the remains of God’s Law that is still written there.
I cannot forget the Law of God, and no matter how good, how true, how right I believe this Law to be, it still increases the weight of my guilt that afflicts me to the point of death.
For as constant as are the afflictions without, and my own sin within, so constant as to be eternal, is the Law of God in its curse of eternal affliction.
My sinful nature, in its bondage to try and be God, would rescue me from these afflictions, yet all its efforts born of sin, only increases my afflictions, increases the weight of the Law against me.
My afflictions would drive me to seek mercy from those who afflict me.
My afflictions would drive me to plead with my afflicters, that they might ease, that they might cease to afflict me for an hour, a moment.
Yet, they that afflict me in this world, and I myself that afflict me from within, have no grace, no love that would move them beyond their own afflictions to ease mine.
I am left to seek mercy; to plead with He who’s Law afflicts me with bondage to my sin, bondage to an affliction of eternal death for my sin.
I am left to seek mercy, to plead with the Lord, who knowing of my affliction before it began, loved me so much that He moved beyond the affliction I have done to Him, moved beyond the affliction His own Law would make on me, to enter my affliction and deliver me.
I am left to seek deliverance from Him who demonstrates His own kind of love, for while I was an enemy, afflicted and afflicting in sin, sent His Son into my afflictions to deliver me.
By His birth into my flesh – He enters into the afflictions that continuously come from without me in this world.
By His baptism – I He enters into the continuous afflictions that come from the Law of God.
By His temptations – He enters into the continuous afflictions that arise from within my own sinful heart.
By His passion on the Cross – He surrenders to all these afflictions born of my guilt, that I and my guilt would be His to constantly deal with and deliver me.
By His death on the Cross – He takes me, my sin, my afflictions and all their power into death to make them dead for, dead to me.
By His resurrection – I am reborn, I am delivered from the power of all my afflictions.
Surely in Jesus Christ, the Lord has looked upon my affliction and delivered me.
And even now, does the Lord Jesus Christ continuously intercede for me in the midst of my afflictions – that I might have the favor and peace of God, my Heavenly Father.
Many and varied are the afflictions within and without me, yet in their multitude and variety, my Lord, along with His look and deliverance - is ever constant.
In looking upon my afflictions, the only thing of my Lord that changes is the ever increasing number of His mercies provided to me.
Lord, I believe, help me in the midst of my afflictions, to turn, to believe in my Lord Jesus Christ – who daily, hourly, nay minute by minute – afflicts me with every grace and blessing.
Thank You, blessed Lord for Your looking, Your loving and Your constantly deliverance of me, a poor miserable sinner through faith in Jesus Christ. Amen.