Psalm 27:3
3 Though an host [machaneh] should encamp [chanah]
against me, my heart [leb] shall not fear [yare']: though war [milchamah]
should rise [quwm] against me, in this will I
be confident [batach]. KJV-Interlinear
3
Though a host encamp against me, My heart will not fear; Though war arise
against me, In spite of this I shall be confident. NASB
David ruled for forty
years, and during most of those years, he was faced with battle after battle
until he achieved a period of peace, that continued through the reign of
Solomon.
During those warring
years, David could honestly say that he was surrounded by enemies. Both, foreign armies who were set on
destroying the nation, and domestic enemies set on destroying Davids rule, were
ever present and more than willing to defeat David and Israel.
But as the scriptures
apply to us all, and most of us are not in military combat situations, then
these words take on a dual meaning for life's difficulties in general.
This is the devils world,
and as such the entire world is against you, in one way or another.
Whether it is the
difficulty you face from the moment by moment activity of your own thoughts, to
the problems that you will face from other people in this world, to the
difficulties that you will face from the bureaucratic nature of government or
organizations, to the threats that come from mother nature, all of these and
more, offer an unlimited volume of possible problems that can upset your life.
If you are poor, then you
do not have enough pay for things. If
you are wealthy, then you are hard pressed to preserve what you have. And if you are somewhere in between, then
life can come at you from all directions as you do not have enough to keep you
safe, and you have too much to prevent you from qualifying from the many
benefits that seem to be out there in the world.
So no one has a totally
secure life in this world.
But there are only two
defenses for you, in all of these difficulties, and they are, whatever resources
that you have or have access to from the world, and the second defense is God.
David had his weapons,
his soldiers, and his wits, with which to deal with the situations of war and
politics.
You have your employment
or your business, your benefits, your insurance, your education, and perhaps
even your talent or health, and so forth.
And even though most of
these things are not available to us all, we all have access to God, if we make
the right choices in life. And that
means daily or moment by moment, right thoughts and intents and actions in your
life.
None of us can rely on
the world, as the world cares nothing for us and will not look after us.
But all of us can look to
God. We only need to have a genuine interest and desire for advancing in our
spiritual life and pursue it correctly, and then God is always there.
