September 24, 2025
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Reading along with us in 2 Samuel and Acts? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Samuel 22 (NIV)
David’s Song of Praise
1 David sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. 2 He said:
“The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
3 my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation……Continue Reading
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This song is so important in David’s life and so valuable in what it declares about our God that it is repeated in Psalm 18. But it is invaluable, priceless if you will, for us as believers to have God on our side working on our behalf. We can run to Him at any time and always find Him caring and able. To think of how hard it was for David to go through all he did, and God had Him go through it, and yet to now be on the other side and be able to see all the ways that God protected and provided and then praising Him for it. And the amazing thing about God is He can work on people and circumstances around us to fix the situations we are in as well as strengthen us to manage and operate in the situations we are in. All to the glory and praise of His name, because when we live our lives in this way, He is the only One that deserves all the credit.
This Psalm of David is actually Psalm 18. David is praising God for his deliverance from his enemies. Our is more of a spiritual battle from the enemy {Satan} but also our flesh. We have to remember like David that God has brought us through many things. For God is our rock, shield, and refuge. When we make decisions, we have to remember that His way is perfect and that He knows best. When people fail or let us down it can be hard to regroup. But we must always look to the Lord. For He knows everything. God bless.
Certainly an inspiring psalm from David reflecting back on all God has brought him through. God does use our hard times for growth and maturity in our faith and David had many of those hard times. Not sure the timing of this psalm but it implies he wrote it toward the end of his life and “blameless” seems like a strong word to describe himself but I would not be able to say that about myself either. David handled many difficult situations well and according to God’s ways (with just a couple exceptions) and God isn’t looking for us to be sinless but with Him and through Him we should definitely be sinning less and that is true of David.
Hebrew 6:1,2
”Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name. “He is the tower of salvation to His king, And shows mercy to His anointed, To David and his descendants forevermore.”“
II Samuel 22:50-51 NKJV
Our God is all powerful, strong, and mighty. He is always with us; he our rock and our refuge. We should remember that when we feel weak, discouraged and defeated. Pray to the Lord that he will be our strength, our stronghold, our deliverer. And he will come to our rescue as he did for King David so much so that we will want to shout “The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior!”