Psalm 18:3
3 I will call [qara'] upon the
LORD, [Yahovah] who is worthy to be praised: [halal] so shall I be saved [yasha`]
from mine enemies. ['oyeb] KJV-Interlinear
3 I
call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my
enemies. NASB
Call, ‘qara,’ refers to a
continuing call, a never ending repetition of requests.
Saved, ‘yasha,’ refers to
deliverance or rescue from difficult situations. These situations can be from any number of
circumstances and are not limited to bad people but include social, financial,
or just ones own dumb decisions that go badly.
The Lord is God, and
refers here to the self-existent one, or the eternal one, and typically is used
as the personal name of the second person of the Trinity, who is Jesus Christ.
Worthy of praise, is a
phrase that separates God from all other living things or all things in
general.
There is only one person
who is worthy of praise and that is God.
Not family, not ancestors, not celebrities, not made up deities, not
people whoever they might be, not angels, not things, not anything or anyone or
any place.
God alone is worthy. There is nothing and no one who possesses the
necessary attributes or character that would qualify as worthy.
Worthy means deserving,
respectable, good, moral. God alone is
deserving. Man deserves nothing. Mans inventions deserve nothing. Man can neither earn or deserve
anything. To do so would require
arrogance as a justification for mans worthiness, and arrogance in itself
cancels all worth.
Therefore, if you are to
call upon anything or anyone, God is the only legitimate target for your call,
prayer, request.
Calling upon anything
else, the weather, the wind, your ancestors, animals, the moon, etc., is a
total waste of time and is a fools pursuit.
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