Facing Fear with Praise
As David faced his fears and expressed them to God in Psalm 27, he began with worship, celebrating the power and faithfulness of his God.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
As David faced his fears and expressed them to God in Psalm 27, he began with worship, celebrating the power and faithfulness of his God.
If fear has become your daily grind, Psalm 27 should prove very helpful. It is a song intended to take the pain out of that dreadful grind.
As David concludes his song about the grinding pain of unjust treatment and his chosen responses, he then commits to patience.
David's prayer for protection while enduring mistreatment didn't merely ask God for help; the king's song included a commitment on his part.
King David knew the sting of unjust treatment as keenly as anyone in history. To keep mistreatment from undermining his relationship with God, he put some resolutions into a song.
If you are confident that God really loves you, you will neither doubt nor drift in your response. Instead, you will find great delight in pleasing Him. There is nothing quite like love to motivate us from within.
If I were asked to give a popular title to Psalm 26, it would be: "How to Do Right When You've Been Done Wrong."
As David brings his song of the sheep to a close, having reflected on the Lord's faithful care throughout his life, he then considers his future.
As David's song of the sheep concludes, he suddenly drops the analogy to consider his own experience of God, both as a simple man in need of a Saviour and as a king in need of divine guidance.
As a former shepherd keeping watch over flocks in the wilderness, the composer of Psalm 23 understood the nature of sheep, including their bad habit of wandering.