“Someone get me out of here on dove wings; I want some peace and quiet.” Psalm 55:1-8

Psalm 55:1-8 GOD’S WORD Translation

For the choir director; on stringed instruments; a maskil by David.

55 Open your ears to my prayer, O God.
Do not hide from my plea for mercy.
² Pay attention to me, and answer me.
My thoughts are restless, and I am confused
³ because my enemy shouts at me
and a wicked person persecutes me.
They bring misery crashing down on me,
and they attack me out of anger.
⁴ My heart is in turmoil.
The terrors of death have seized me.
⁵ Fear and trembling have overcome me.
Horror has overwhelmed me.
⁶ I said, “If only I had wings like a dove—
I would fly away and find rest.
⁷ Indeed, I would run far away.
I would stay in the desert. Selah
⁸ I would hurry to find shelter
from the raging wind and storm.”

The Word of God for the Children of God.

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.

Have you ever had the desire to just look up into the air and fly like a bird?

Do you ever wish you could just leap up and fly away for some peace and quiet?

Sometimes in life, the troubles we face can cause deep inner turmoil.

We may struggle with our physical or mental health, a physical disability or an acute, chronic disease, a relationship that feels stuck, a difficult career, a deep disappointment or loss of self or purpose, a cycle of poverty, or something else.

Take your pick — there are too many different things can make us feel trapped.

When David wrote this psalm, he was feeling disillusioned and stuck.

He was distraught by the situation he was in, and he felt betrayed by a friend.

He desperately wanted any way out and he prayed to God that dreamed of being like a dove so he could forget everything, just fly far away from all his troubles.

But as he wrestled with his discouragement, as he waited for God to answer his prayer, he grew to understand that although he did not have wings to fly away, nor would he be given them anytime soon, he did have a voice to call upon God.

Just a minimal desire to get away from all the, what seem like the relentless challenges, or wearying days where things just do not get around to changing.

I frequently think about all that’s gone on in the world over the last year, and the mounting cumulative effect of just so many different pressures, so many different tensions – Just want to shout to God;

“Don’t we, can’t we have one day or several days or a lifetime where we just want to put all those pressures, all those tensions deep into the sea of forgetfulness, “to fly away, high into the air, away from mankind’s nonsense like a dove,” to be gone?

That’s what the Psalms is saying here in Psalm 55:4–8, “I wish I had the wings like a dove, I would fly away and be at rest. I just want rest from it all. Yes, I would wander far away. And I would lodge in the wilderness. I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest. I just want rest and relief.”

We often find ourselves in this situation in this world. And I think most of us, especially over the last year in this world, this well describes where we’re at.

That’s why I wanted to read verses 4-8, and then jump down to verse 22.

There’s so much in this Psalm, but now verse 22 says,

“Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved.”

Can I just read and pray that one more time over you the reader, and pray you too shout your prayers to God, to just hear this precious living Word of God ?

I mean, it’s the pressures and tensions, and challenges, and weightiness and weariness that you may be feeling that will take its toll upon your body, soul!

And then Just to hear this word straight from God, “Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved.”

The solution to being released from life’s burdens isn’t to escape but to give them up to the Lord: “Cast your cares on the Lord, and he will sustain you.”

Echoing the assurance of this psalm, Jesus says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. . . . Learn from me . . . and you will find rest for your souls” (Matthew 11:28-29).

So, Almighty, Compassionate and Merciful God, I just have to pray these verses over every single person listening right now who is weary, who is heavy of heart with sorrows, with challenges, and just lacking strength or lacking wisdom, or in some cases, some days feel like there’s a complete lack of hope for a change.

Psalm 55:4–8 Describes This Unbearable Burden, and Psalm 55:22 Teaches That We Can Cast Them to God, He Can Sustain Us

So God, we pray Psalm 55:22 right now. We cast our burdens upon you. God, I pray that you would give grace to every single person listening right now.

Just to cast all of these burdens on you, to know. We praise you, God, that we don’t have to carry these burdens alone. That we can cast them upon you, we can cast in a first Peter five way, all of our anxieties upon you, all of our worries, all of our burdens, all the things that weigh down our hearts and our lives. We cast them on you and to stay grounded in God and we trust that you will sustain.

Based on Psalm 55, verse 22, I trust oh God, that as we cast our burdens upon you, you will sustain and we praise you for this. We praise you that you will not permit those who trust in you to be moved. May it be so, we pray according to your word in Psalm 55, verse 22. In Jesus’ our Shepherds name we pray. Amen.

Lord and God, thank you that even when we are surrounded by troubles that we would rather escape, you give us the wings of prayer and you promise to sustain us. Help us to release our doubts, to cast our burdens on you. Amen.

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.

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