Psalm 18

December 11, 2005

 

I am grateful for my salvation for my God lifted me from the slimy pit of dying in sin. Today I can say my God has been my deliverer.

 

How often do you give thanksgiving to the Lord for what He does in your life on a daily basis? Those near misses on a freeway, a child’s high fever that breaks, a family member with cancer who is healed, someone who falsely accused you, and that God met your needs according to his will.

 

David told the Lord how much he loved him and told the Lord that he knew he was his rock, his fortress, and deliverer. Psalm 18:2 “The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”

 

I love that promise and know there may be times when the waters of life will surround me but my God will be there to deliver me from drowning. Life is full of many choices and circumstances but our God is in control even when it appears hopeless.

 

God is pure, God saves, God’s ways are perfect, God is light, and God is deliverer. Throughout Psalm 18 we see how God delivers those who call upon his name.

 

As David sung this Psalm, we too can sing the victory song for our God who delivered David will deliver us today.

 

Is there something this very day or week that you need to bring to the Lord and be delivered from? Is it not praying enough? Not studying the Word? Are you trying to take on something that you should give to the Lord?

 

Psalm 18:30 “As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust him.”

 

Read Psalm 18 and pray through it until you have given the Lord total trust in your daily life. Pray seeking God’s guidance in dealing with daily trials and see how he will light your path to peace.

 

Chrismas is in 2 weeks and so many people are entrapped in the world’s ways. Pray for someone to be delivered to Jesus and saved.