Can we find something to thank God for and Declare in the midst of our troubles? David did!
Psalm 34 is a remarkable song of praise to David’s God.
The Title states, ‘When he pretended to be insane before Abimelech (Philistine king) who drove him away and he left’. Can we imagine the fear and pressure he must have experienced to have to pretend he was insane, but he escaped. David had gone over to his enemies to escape king Saul who hunted him to take his life.
So in the middle of all this David wrote a psalm of praise to his God. In the NIV the word ‘troubleS, always plural’ is used three times(verses 6, 17, 19). He didn’t ignore his troubles but he kept looking to God for His help to overcome them and so should we!
I will extol the Lord AT ALL TIMES;
HIS PRAISE WILL ALWAYS BE ON MY LIPS.
2 I will glory in the Lord;
let the afflicted (troubled) hear and rejoice.
3 GLORIFY THE LORD WITH ME: LET US EXALT HIS NAME TOGETHER.
David was determined he would praise God always and he exhorted others to join with him. Praising God in times of trouble will change our whole perspective, it will help us to Look Up to Him and not Down to our problems.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
5 THOSE WHO LOOK TO HIM ARE RADIANT;
their faces are never covered with shame.
6 This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
HE SAVED HIM OUT OF ALL HIS TROUBLES.
7 THE ANGEL OF THE LORD ENCAMPS AROUND THOSE WHO FEAR HIM,
AND HE DELIVERS THEM.
David faced some tough challenges but God delivered him. Paul said of his life as an apostle that at times he despaired of life itself, ‘BUT GOD’. Don’t give up, nothing is too difficult for the Lord. Isaiah 59:1
David was writing from the background of his own personal troubles but the Holy Spirit used his words to look down the centuries(David lived 900 years earlier) to Christ on the cross;
The righteous man may have many troubles,
but the Lord delivers him from them all;
20 He protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.
No other religion and no other religious writings predict the future with such unerring accuracy as the Bible. Biblical Prophecy is completely unique in predicting the coming of Messiah and His return again to rule.
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