Sep 1995 - Notes On Psalm 3 - Bible Studies

by John Miller | Category: Voices From The Past | Sept 1995

The psalms give the inward thoughts of the writers, though the outward circumstances would lead us to think the opposite. This is so in David's case on his first occasion of being in Gath. Seeing the extreme danger that he and his men were m, he feigned madness and was driven away by Abimelech the king of Gath. We would hardly have thought that at that time he was praying for the Lord's deliverance. He seemed rather to be depending on scheming. But he writes in Psalm 34:4,6, which was written at that time,

I sought the LORD, and He answered me,

And delivered me from all my fears

This poor man cried, and the LORD 'heard him, And saved him Out of all his troubles.

David in Psalm 3 first considers the vast numbers of his adversaries. They were gathered as the sand of the sea to make an end of him. Many were saying that his case was hopeless, that there was no salvation for him in God. The man who had escaped Out of the net which was laid for his steps many times could not possibly escape this time, according to these would-be prophets. But David's confidence is in God, and he says to the Lord,

But Thou, 0 LORD, art a shield about me,

My glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

I cry unto the LORD with my voice,

And He answereth me out of His holy hill.

His line to the throne of God was neither out of order nor engaged. He had got through to God and the Lord answered his cry for help, and salvation was on the way. No army could pierce the shield that David had. 'The LORD is my shield', he says.

John Miller | Sept 1995
Voices From The Past