Sing Into Your Storm ~ Overcoming Adversity Through High Praise

your heart out before the Lord to bring your heart into the place where it can sincerely make that choice . It is important to understand that choosing to forgive does not mean completing overlooking the serious of the attack or the forfeiting of any justice upon the one who has delivered the blow (wound) to you. That is the deeper part of what a “ shiggaion ” is… It means bringing the merits of the attack before the Lord and asking Him to judge righteously between both of you (and or all parties concerned)! That is what David did! Your job is not to let anger consume you! Again, anger is a choice . It is said that anger is just one letter away from danger – and rightly so! That is why the Word of God says:

“Be angry, but do not sin, do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.” (Ephesians 4:26-27) “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ also forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:31-32)

In David’s “ shiggaion, ” he approached God in the purest posture of heart possible. He pleaded to God for justice, but at the same time he also made himself accountable to God in the matter, so if there was any degree of culpability upon his part, in his plea for rendering judgment from the Lord – he opened himself up to receive any correction or judgment in the matter as well:

“O L ORD my God, if I have done this: If there is iniquity in my hands, If I have repaid evil to him who was at

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