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1 LORD, how many are my foes!
How many rise up against me!
2 Many are saying of me,
‘God will not deliver him.’[b]
3 But you, LORD, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high.
4 I call out to the LORD,
and he answers me from his holy mountain.
5 I lie down and sleep;
I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.
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6 I will not fear though tens of thousands
assail me on every side.
7 Arise, LORD!
Deliver me, my God!
Strike all my enemies on the jaw;
break the teeth of the wicked.
8 From the LORD comes deliverance.
May your blessing be on your people.
(NIV)
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Psalm 3: The historical background to the psalm is described (in 2 Sam. chapters 15-18). Though David petitioned (in verse 7), Arise, O Lord; save me”, it is clear from (2 Sam. 15:32-37), that David shrewdly sent his friend Hushai back to Jerusalem to deceive Absalom. David used means but trusted only in God.
This Psalm was sometimes called ‘The Morning hymn’, or ‘Morning Prayer’.
1. Outline the situation (1-2);
2. The God who answers, will find security and freedom from fear (3-6);
3. The Psalmist calls out to God to save him (7-8).
If you are a parent, you may know the sadness in David's heart when he fled from his own son.
This is a similar feeling that Jesus felt when the Hebrews turned against Him, and many believers in Christ today, have the feel of those we thought to be friends, hating us.
The sorrow we see, is in what David is feeling here.
His feelings are felt by many of us, who have made an unshakeable stand for Jesus. We can only feel sorry that they cannot hear or see God or Jesus in the situation.
It is thought that these psalms make the foundation of the Covenant with God’s faithful people.
When our friends, or people in our family, take a turn to do bad things and end up losing all their money. We try to help them, but it is their will to do the right or wrong things, and that is hardest to change. It takes a lot of prayers to God to ask how we can help them.
Sometimes we have to be hard because we will find there are some people that we cannot help. People have said to me that they cannot take the life Christ leads and would rather be in the other place and live in sin. I feel sorry for them, that they are not even prepared to listen.
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