“Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink;

let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.”

“Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.”

Regardless of the human author of the psalm, who applied these words to himself, it is God’s word that applies to each of us to some degree. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink! We are confronted with the image of a man sinking in the mire. We know that the more he moves and tries to get out of it, the deeper he sinks. The only solution for him is to be saved by someone else. In a figurative sense, for each of us, the mire is our sin or addiction that enslaves us so much that we cannot get out of it by our own efforts. What is the solution? Call on the One who can save me. The soul cries to God, it cries for deliverance. “Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink!” It is already on the verge of death, on the verge of spiritual death. “Let me be delivered from those who hate me!” Human malice, behind which is often a demonic spirit, seeks to destroy an innocent soul. Lies and evil, when part of a system, receive a certain power for physical destruction, and even seek to destroy eternal life. How does God save?

“Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloodthirsty men.”

“Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloodthirsty men.”

David wrote this psalm when Saul guarded the house to kill him. “Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, ‘If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.’ So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped. And Michal took an idol and laid it in the bed, put a cover of goats’ hair for his head, and covered it with clothes. So when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, ‘He is sick.’ Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, ‘Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.’ And when the messengers had come in, there was the idol in the bed, with a cover of goats’ hair for his head… So David fled and escaped, and went to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. Now it was told Saul, saying, ‘Take note, David is at Naioth in Ramah!’ Then Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as leader over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.”

“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;

according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.”

“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.”

This psalm was written by King David in the situation described in 2Sam 12:1f: “Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: ‘There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him. And a traveller came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.’ So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, ‘As the Lord lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.’ Then Nathan said to David, ‘You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul…’ So David said to Nathan, ‘I have sinned against the Lord.’ And Nathan said to David, ‘The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.’”

If one has not suppressed a sense of truth, one is aware of the futility of life, and if one has faith, one longs to stand before God in prayer, i.e. in God’s presence. Some saints would look for hours at the face of Christ on the cross. Here was the source of true wisdom. Here the mysteries of life encoded in the Bible were revealed to them. Here they were drawn deep into the great love of Christ for them and motivated to make heroic sacrifices for the salvation of souls. Here many even received the strength to die martyrs.

We live in very hard times. We can say we are already entering the apocalyptic age, when each of us will be put to the test in connection with vaccination and chipping which will carry punishments if rejected. Maybe the martyr’s crown is prepared for some. That is why it is so important that our soul pants for God as the deer pants for the water brooks.

“As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?”

“Surely every man walks about like a shadow; surely they busy themselves in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.”

This verse of the Psalm points to a profound truth concerning the brevity of our lives, the reality of death, and human blindness which avoids the thought of death as well as the thought of what will happen to the riches that man has accumulated. In other words, it points to vanity. In the previous verses 5 and 6 it is said: “Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreaths, and my age is as nothing before you; certainly every man at his best state is but vapour.” Who among us humans is aware of this reality that concerns each of us? Therefore, it is also said in the word of life that every man walks about like a shadow, that is, like someone who does not respect reality.

“Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain;

He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gather them.”

“Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.”

“When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You,

“Your face, Lord, I will seek.”

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.”

The psalm clearly depicts God as the shepherd. In the Gospel, Jesus Himself says that He is the Good Shepherd who gives His life for His sheep. Every bishop and every priest should be such a good shepherd. Similarly, every Christian father should be a good shepherd for his children and all family. They will be good shepherds if they keep faithful to the Lord, feed on the pasture of God’s word and drink the waters of God’s grace which restore the spiritual life. They will walk in the path of righteousness if they enter into God’s name in which is the fullness of our salvation. This name is Jesus – Yehoshua.

Many images show Jesus carrying the lost sheep on His shoulders. And we read in the Gospel that He leaves the ninety-nine and goes after the one which is lost. In this way, Jesus manifests His caring love of a shepherd towards each one of us. But we must be aware that this love of the Good Shepherd went through great suffering for our salvation, which had been foretold by God through David in Psalm 22 (21) one thousand years before.

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.”

“The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid,

their own foot is caught.”

August 28, 2020

Dear priests, pastors and believers in the United States,

America is facing presidential elections this year. They will decide whether or not the elites will succeed in the global economic reset started by an artificial pandemic. The plan of globalists is to shut down all economic systems and cause collapse. The goal is to get not only the United States but all humanity into a hopeless crisis. Why? To make people ready to adopt any so-called solution only to save themselves. In fact, it will be suicide in the form of micro-chipped vaccination. What plays a key role in this is the induction of new waves of artificial pandemic and serial vaccinations resulting in the genocide of six billion people.

What are we as Christians obliged to do to save humanity? At this time we must strive even more for the salvation of ourselves and others. This is not possible without communication with God in personal prayer.

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