Psalm 18:1
1 To the chief Musician, [natsach] A Psalm of David, [David]
the servant [`ebed] of the LORD, [Yahovah] who spake [dabar] unto the
LORD [Yahovah] the words [dabar] of this song [shiyr] in the
day [yowm] that the LORD [Yahovah] delivered [natsal] him from
the hand [kaph] of all his enemies, ['oyeb] and from the hand [yad] of
Saul: [Sha'uwl] And he said, ['amar]
I will love [racham] thee, O
LORD, [Yahovah] my strength. [chezeq]KJV-Interlinear
1 For
the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the
Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his
enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said,
1
"I love Thee, O Lord ,my strength." NASB
Taken from 2 Sam. 22,
this psalm or song, is a personal expression of thanks or gratitude from David
toward God through the Lord, for all that God has done for David, even though
David is far from being deserving of that grace. None of us are deserving.
While a psalm is generally
viewed as a public display of worship, a song or music, is an expression from
within the inner self, from the soul, and is intended to express a private manifestation
of a feeling that is beyond words and difficult to be expressed. Therefore the music wells up from within in a
fashion that words cannot describe.
David was the anointed king. And while Saul was king at the time, and
while David had Gods express promise, he still looked to, and subordinated
himself to God. He did not see himself
as some special person above and beyond others.
David spoke to the
Lord. This he did through continual
prayer. This is the attitude through which
we all can learn humility and look to one who is able to help us in all things.
This world is full of
enemies from without and from within.
The general enemies can be personal or non-personal. They can be people or
circumstances. Anything that can bring
pressure into ones life and serve as a distraction of your life away from God,
is an enemy.
Saul was a formidable enemy. He was the power of that day. He was the king, and David was the marked
target of Sauls government.
And yet, God delivered
David out of Sauls hands, as well as out of the hands of all of Davids
circumstances, even though David was on the run for several years and could
have easily succumbed to any number of enemies during that time.
We can all look back on
our lives and with objectivity, wonder just how we survived the many
circumstances that we have faced.
Certainly there have been overwhelming times and periods of adversity
and even uncertainty, that should have under any other circumstances, taken our
life in another direction if not worse.
And yet here we are.
All of the education, all
of the luck, all of the situations that we have faced could never have brought
us through life as well as God has done for us.
God has a plan for each
of our lives, and as long as we humble ourselves and comply with that which God
has prescribed for us, then there will never be a failing moment. But when we are defiant toward God, and
revolt against that which God has placed before us, then failure is certain and
the bumps in the road become all that more difficult.
To love God, means to
have a deeply abiding compassion for His provisions for our life. And that feeling does not exist nor can it,
unless and until you first recognize Gods role in your own personal life.
Strength from God, comes
only through doctrine. For to learn doctrine,
produces understanding, and understanding produces application, and application
produces wisdom, and wisdom produces faith, and in faith our eyes are truly opened
to the realities of life and Gods role in our life.
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