A Tottering Fence
Psalm 62:3 “Like a leaning wall, a tottering fence.”
Read: Psalm 62
We once lived in a home with a leaning fence. It was old. Over the years the frost had repeatedly heaved the ground so that the fence posts were loose. The fence was barely hanging on until one stormy and windy night the inevitable happened. It fell to the ground.
Have you ever felt like a leaning fence on a stormy and windy night? David sure did. In Psalm 62:3 he says that he is like “a leaning wall, a tottering fence.” David was weak and vulnerable. And like great gusts of wind on a stormy night, his enemies sought to take advantage of his weakness. They had a plan to topple him. They were going to use force to push him over.
Maybe you are in a situation of weakness and vulnerability in your life. There is a particular sin you struggle with. Satan constantly tempts you to commit this particular sin. And in the face of his power you feel like a leaning wall and a tottering fence, like you cannot keep yourself from falling over. After all what are you? You are but a breath (Ps. 62:9).
Or maybe as you look at the Christian church around the world you see all kinds of persecution. Terrorists and tyrants kill followers of Christ. Outwardly weak and helpless in the face of ongoing attacks, it seems that the church will eventually just fall to the ground.
But the message of Psalm 62 
is that God saves his own. Because of God’s power and steadfast love the church does not fall (Ps. 62:11–12). God reinforces the walls of the church so that the gates of hell do not prevail against it. Likewise, you are not pushed over. Why not? Because Jesus Christ was pushed over in the place of all God’s people. He was the leaning wall that God let fall to the ground so that you might not fall and be destroyed.
Therefore, you need to trust in God alone. You need to pour out your heart before him. He has poured out his love on you; he held nothing back in giving you his one and only Son. In response, hold nothing back from him. Trust in him alone and so pray with David in verse 6, “I shall not be shaken.”
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