Rescue My Darling

Psalms 35:17 KJV

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

With tenderness David asks God to rescue both his soul and his "darling". The word means "only one" and refers to his life. The one thing that matters most of all to any of us is life.

• We treasure and cherish it
• We will spare no expense to save it
• Multiple billions are spent each year to find better ways to preserve it

And yet none of us seem to take care of it until it is nearly too late.

If that is true of the temporal life of this flesh it is doubly true of the eternal life of the soul. Every one wants to live forever:

• Scores of religious teachers have made their fortunes teaching and preaching their ideas about how to have it.
• Millions have fought and died for their convictions surrounding it

but very few are willing to simply trust God to give it.

In our corrupted state we are a self destructive being. The very thing we desire the most; the thing we long to have the most and that we love the most, is the thing we are likely to deprive ourselves of the most.