Do Not Faint

Good Morning,

Psalm 27:13 “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.”

David wrote, “I had fainted,” when he was in a time of great distress,  yet he followed the statement with the reason he did not faint:

“… unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.”


David believed that he would see the goodness of the Lord — not in Heaven, but in the land of the living.  Here, on earth, David believed that one day, he would see the goodness of God revealed.   Though at the time, he felt as if he would faint. David believed that he would see God in all His goodness.  

David was under such pressure;  so much weighed on him that he felt that he would faint, but not without hope for tomorrow.  David also wrote in the Psalms:

"... yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast."  (Psalm 57:1)

There is comfort in the fact that God is good, that God is faithful, that God is near, and that God loves His Own.   


Some days (sometimes weeks or months), we need extra grace to rest in the Lord and His promises, but as we look into the perfect law of liberty, we can find assurance that we will see the “goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”  

God is good, and one day, we will see it; be patient.

Pastor