Psalm 54
Psalm 54
is a neat psalm to follow Psalm 53. In
this psalm we open with a genuine confession.
David needs to be saved. He is in
a position of desperately needing a way out of the pursuit of King Saul.
Where the
pursuit comes from is irrelevant. Are we
not all in a place of needing salvation?
In Psalm 53 did we not see and hear that nobody is good? Whether the persecution is external or from
our own internal failings, are we not all in need of salvation? Do we not all need God to hear our prayer?
The
prevailing truth of the Bible is that God is able to help us. Time and time again God is there to help and
save His servants. He saved Abraham and
Lot. He saved Jacob and his sons. He saved the descendants of Abraham in
Egypt. He saved the Hebrew people in the
time of the judges. He saved David. He saved Elijah and Elisha. He saved Judah under the time of Josiah and
even under Hezekiah. When things got
really rough under the Babylonians and Assyrians, He saved a remnant of
faithful even there! Certainly the list
of Christian disciples that God has saved from the time of Christ to now is not
exactly small either! The Bible tells us
that God is a God of salvation. God
loves His creation and He does save.
What a
wonderful thought coming immediately after Psalm 53. Nobody is good without God {Message of Psalm 53}. God is a God who desires to save us in spite
of our condition {Message of Psalm 54}. Those messages go so perfectly well together.
God is
indeed our helper. He alone is the one
who upholds our life. He is the only one
who can fairly judge and repay the evil ones for their ways in a righteous
manner.
Of course,
this realization should lead us right to where it leads David. If God is the only genuine source of
salvation to which we have access, does He not deserve our praise? Should we not come to God with thanksgiving
in our hearts? Should we not desire to
give God a freewill offering of our time, talents, and treasures and avail
ourselves to the accomplishing of His will?
Of course we should.
As we saw
with Psalm 53, all of this is rooted in our ability to put ourselves aside and
understand our true nature. We are in
need of salvation; God saves. We are in
need of deliverance; God delivers. We
are in need of righteousness; God is righteous.
He
deserves our praise and thanksgiving because of who we are and what He desires
to do for us in spite of who we are.
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