Day 125

Psalm 57 Part 2

Vs1-4 recounted the fact of foes, v7-11 the fact of God. Notice the intensely personal nature of this psalm. Highlight the references to God and His pronouns and circle the references to David’s personal pronouns ‘I’, ‘me’ & ‘my’. Like David, we journey through a wilderness that has many forms, including the harshness of others words.

If you are among lions(v4), have fellowship with Jesus and His church. If you are among lions, you will be driven nearer to your God, He has then on a leash. If you are among lions, remember there is the lion of Tribe of Judah. He is all-powerful!

Section 2 begins with an exaltation of God (v5). David is in the shadow of the cave at first, but now comes to the cavern’s mouth, and sings in the sweet fresh air, with his eye on the heavens, watching joyously the clouds floating by. God is ‘above’ all the troubles of the earth, just like Jesus walked on the stormy sea.

David twice appealed for mercy; now he twice expresses his steadfast confidence in God. Though alone in the cave with troubles behind and ahead, he could allow his heart to be steadfast in God. He determined to make the Adullam cave ring with music (v7). A grateful heart like David’s, though chased by persecutors, and striking the harp in the gloom of a cave, looks upon the lovingkindness and faithfulness of God as a mighty ocean, waving and heaving from the earth to the clouds (v10). The resurrection of Jesus from the grave, foreshadowed in the deliverance of David from the hand of Saul, was a transaction which caused the heavens and all the powers therein, to extol the ‘lovingkindness’ and ‘truth’ of God.

The final refrain of v11 is a repetition of v5 for emphasis. It’s important to remember that David’s circumstances were not good when he sang this song. He was delivered from the immediate danger at Gath, but a cave was a long way from the throne of Israel which God had promised him. David didn’t wait for his circumstances to change before he praised God ‘above the heavens.’