May 10, 2025

“Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more.”- Psalm 39:13 

 

David knows of the discipline of the Lord to be like a “gaze” upon him, seeing everything he has done. The weight of this gaze has caused David to see the end of his life. His prayer is “please look away from all that is me so I can regain my life back again”

 

We all, who are called through Jesus for Salvation, know the discipline of the Lord. At times, it can be as severe as what David is going through. But this gaze is one of separating David from his sin. This gaze looks right at the sin and say’s “drop it” or “let go of this”. How much we are holding on to that sin determines the power of that gaze. When Jesus cried out “My God My God why have you forsaken Me” He saw this gaze in its fullness for the first time in the body of a man; it must have been horrifying to Him. Jesus removed the gaze of death from our sin.

 

2 Corinthians 5:21 - For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 

 

So Christian, just know when discipline comes, and it will, that sin we are being disciplined for at one time had the gaze of death upon it. So, let us take great thankfulness to what the writer of Hebrews wrote:

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Hebrews 12:11 - Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.