Psalm 43:3 O Send Out Thy Light

Psalm 43:3 (KJV)  O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 

The psalmist’s prayer is that the light of God’s truth be sent out to show where God dwells and where man meets with God. The holy hill and His tabernacle.

This was the turning point for the distress and distraught soul of the psalmist when he sought God. The gospel of John tells us that Jesus is that true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world (John 1:9). Jesus came to bring salvation to all men who will receive him (John 3:16). In Jesus is life, and the life is the light of men. (John 1:4). The psalmist seemed at that moment of despair to have turned his eyes away from Jesus, the coming Messiah. The weariness and trouble of the soul overwhelmed him, he saw no light in the darkness but there is light for a look at the Saviour!

He is the Light at the end of the tunnel, the Living Word. The living Word is found in the written Word, according to the Scripture, received by faith. The written Word is truth, every jot and title of it (Matthew 5:18), designed to be received for the wisdom, comfort and edification of God’s people. 

Let His people appropriate it this day with the Holy Spirit’s help and day by day until we are conducted to heaven. Amen.