Psalm 13: God - The Bountiful Blesser

    But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
        my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
    I will sing to the LORD,
        because he has dealt bountifully with me.
(Psalm 13:5-6 ESV)

Whenever I hear the word bountiful, it always brings to mind a harvest overflowing with perfectly ripened produce. I see a table laden with more delicious food than I could ever hope to consume. The word brings a sense of contentment, security, and rest.

In this Psalm, David is crying out to God in a time of trouble. Things have not been going well for him and He feels that God has abandoned him. He opens the Psalm by saying:

    How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?
        How long will you hide your face from me?
(Psalm 13:1 ESV)

 But David trusts God. He knows that even though he feels as such, God would never abandon him. He has seen in his life that God's love is steadfast and he looks back on how God has bountifully blessed him.

God does not abandon His children. On the contrary, He blesses us more bountifully than we can imagine. Jesus himself tells us this in Matthew 7 when He says:

    “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
(Matthew 7:7-11 ESV)

God wants to bless us! He wants to give bountifully to us! And he does; we just need to trust Him and ask and rest contently in the security of His blessing.