Ps 18

This is not exactly the post I intended, for the 2nd time in a little over a week, we have had such heavy rains (over an inch an hour) that the gutters and drains could not keep up with it...water rose over the threshold and came into our sun room. Clorox is my friend. This time it did not cover the baseboards but it created quite a mess.

David's sense of timing and what needed to be done always amazes me. In I Sam 26 we read:

So David and Abishai went to the army by night, and there was Saul, lying asleep inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying around him.

Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of my spear; I won't strike him twice."

But David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the LORD's anointed and be guiltless? As surely as the LORD lives," he said, "the LORD himself will strike him; either his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish. But the LORD forbid that I should lay a hand on the LORD's anointed. Now get the spear and water jug that are near his head, and let's go."

So David took the spear and water jug near Saul's head, and they left. No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up. They were all sleeping, because the LORD had put them into a deep sleep.

I think in my zeal, being caught up in the moment, or doing my will in Jesus' Name, I would have done the thing and "finished" the job. David is filled with the Lord's wisdom and stops Abishai from killing Saul.

The text this week shows us so much. I want to share a few verses from PS 18 which struck me, I am using the Holman Bible:

32 God—He clothes me with strength
and makes my way perfect.

33 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer
and sets me securely on the heights.

34 He trains my hands for war;
my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

35 You have given me the shield of Your salvation;
Your right hand upholds me,
and Your humility exalts me.

36 You widen [a place] beneath me for my steps,
and my ankles do not give way.

37 I pursue my enemies and overtake them;
I do not turn back until they are wiped out.

38 I crush them, and they cannot get up;
they fall beneath my feet.

39 You have clothed me with strength for battle;
You subdue my adversaries beneath me.


As New Covenant people, we see the correlation between these verses and the verses describing our armor in Eph 6. We are at war and He prepares and clothes us.

Also in Psalm 18, these verses grabbed me:

1 I love You, LORD, my strength.

2 The LORD is my rock,
my fortress, and my deliverer,
my God, my mountain where I seek refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation,
my stronghold.

3 I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and I was saved from my enemies.