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Tuesday, June 06, 2017

David’s Song of Praise in 2 Samuel 22 is a song in which he worships God as the great deliverer from all his enemies.  Read the song and identify all the word pictures David uses to describe his God.  Notice how he personalizes his relationship with God.  “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer...my shield and the horn of my salvation...my stronghold, my refuge and my savior.” 

He affirms the benefit of that relationship – “I called and He saved.”  Verse 17 declares, “He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters.”  Then he says somethings that startled me.  He sounds like he’s bragging about God coming through for him because he is righteous, clean, obedient, blameless, and having kept himself from sin.  This is quite different from the man described earlier as an adulterer and murderer. 

How am I to understand this?  Verse 28 says, “You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.”  God brought him low, allowing his enemies to torment him.  But when David humbled himself and confessed his sin, God forgave.  Once forgiven, he was restored before God.  That’s why he could say in verse 31, “As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless.  He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.” 

Once forgiven and restored, God empowered him to overcome his enemies and again be a man after God’s own heart.  That’s why he wrote his song of praise to God.  So can you if you respond to God’s conviction as David did.

 

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