Charles (Chuck) Kensinger

While David is fleeing from Saul, another man turns against him in Psalm seven. He continues to ask what he has done to deserve death. The new King requests Yahweh to vindicate him. God is his shield and protects him from Saul and those working with him. That is why David praises the Lord.

“The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?” This is the way the twenty-seventh Psalm begins. Many of our problems are because we do not put this fact into operation. Your life shows your beliefs just as this ancient man did. Do you notice that the King refers to living in the Temple of the Lord? I had not been built yet. David referred to it as a real place that he could go to. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” This is Hebrews 11:1. David did not read it, he lived it.

This shepherd knew to search for Yahweh, and He would find him. He acknowledged that one day he would be with his Lord and savior. Do we stand on that kind of faith?

In Psalm 31 David asks to be delivered by the righteousness of Jehovah, not in his own good works. The rock of refuge and the fortress are names used again here for the Lord. There is a trap set for the King and for each of us as well. We need to plead for deliverance, just as the Psalmist does.

“I hate those who cling to worthless idols”, is a statement made here. Note the difference between the writer and those he refers to. He trusts in God. They do not. Good things will be his after the Lord rescues him from his tormenters. We must hang on until the end, just as King David did.

David continues to praise his God in Psalm 34. Looking to Jehovah to save him is all the young man can do. Try the Lord and see what He will do is the method used here. The righteous are the ones that will be ransomed. Refuge in Yahweh means no condemnation.

Boasting about evil is condemned is Psalm 52. He is speaking of Doeg, who caused the death of the priests and their families because they helped David as he was fleeing Saul’s attempts to murder him. He cannot believe that anyone would violate God’s servants as this man has. The Lord is praised for rescuing our hero even though His own priests were betrayed falsely.

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