Psalms 54-55

May 17, 2022

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Reading along with us in selections from Psalms and Proverbs? Here’s today’s reading:

Psalms 54-55 (NIV)

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?”
1 Save me, O God, by your name;
vindicate me by your might.
2 Hear my prayer, O God;
listen to the words of my mouth.
3 Arrogant foes are attacking me;
ruthless people are trying to kill me—
people without regard for God...........Continue Reading

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  1. We can only imagine the stress David was under as Saul pursued him and wanted him dead. And although we may or may not face things of a similar fashion, whatever it is we do need to handle, God is always our refuge and strength. We can be comforted that He is not only with us but also hears our prayers. We can also trust him to thwart the plans of those who come against us and deal with them in defense of us. Now He always does that in His way and in His time, and waiting and believing then becomes the tough part. And remember too that Jesus command to us is to love our enemies. Yet I believe we can do that because our strength comes from God and because we know that vengeance is His. Jesus also provided a good reference point in the way that He dealt with His enemies. He confronted them with the truth, but did not treat them in the way their actions toward Him deserved.

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  2. 6I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest.
    7I would flee far away
    and stay in the desert;

    Oh I have had some days where this is my wish to fly away from the troubles but David reminds me how trivial my problems are compared to his and yet he trusts, he waits for God to respond, and he knows God will rescue him.
    Sometimes it feels like the devil is attacking from every angle and we need to trust that God is there and ready to respond and ready to rescue but that the trial is where our faith is tested and strengthened so instead of flying away we press on and we trust God!

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  3. David asks God to hear him.
    In Psalm 54 it is strangers that are oppressing him.
    In Psalm 55 it is someone who he once trusted and had fellowship with.
    “For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
    But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
    We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.”

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