Rescued- Psalm 18: 1- 19
1 I love you, O Lord, my strength.
2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, so I shall be saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of perdition assailed me;
5 the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
6 In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
7 Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth;
glowing coals flamed forth from him.
9 He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.
10 He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
12 Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice.
14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
15 Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He reached down from on high, he took me; he drew me out of mighty waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the Lord was my support.
19 He brought me out into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Psalm 18 is a Thanksgiving Psalm of King David.
He starts with Praising God’s name. (V. 1-2) He expresses his reliance on to the Lord, by describing the faithfulness of God. We need to remember where David’s experience. He has undergone so much suffering, and through the suffering he saw the God, who was his faithful protector.
Then David talks about how much agony he was experiencing, as he called on the name of God. (V. 3 – 6) His suffering was server; he describes it as ‘the snares of death confronted me.’ (V.5)
But then he describes how God was faithful to respond to his prayer and call, and when God answers, it is powerful enough to shake the world up. (V. 7-15)
Not only that the world trembles, at God’s presence, but that same God also reaches down to David. (V. 16 – 19) And remember how God sends Jesus Christ, reaching down into our world to not only give us eternal life but also saves us from our suffering.
Are you going a hard time? Let us fix our eyes on our Lord, and rely on His faithfulness.
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