Psalm 4 Continued… On April 4, 1864, in a letter to Albert Hodges, Abraham Lincoln wrote, “If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therin […]

Psalm 4 Continued… There is a side of this Psalm (and many others) that I don’t want to quickly skip over. That is, that we must remember that these were indeed songs to be sung. They were played to a certain type of instrument and a style that would be very foreign to most modern […]

Psalm 4 Continued… Psalm 4 introduces a critically important theological idea for us. It is the idea of covenant relationship. Look at verse 3… Psalms 4:3a Know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; That word “godly” is the Hebrew word ‘Hasid’. That word is derived from the Hebrew noun ‘Hesed’, which […]

Psalm 4 Continued… The next three themes in Psalm 4 are this. By trusting in the Lord, David… 2) Confessed his inner peace. 3) Confessed his inner joy, and 4) holds out hope for his oppressors. Keep in mind the context. Absalom, his son, has garnered the support and following of many. Many became convinced […]

Psalm 4 The next Psalm attributed to David is Psalm 4. Many scholars believe this Psalm to be connected to the same events of Psalm 3 (when David had to flee Jerusalem on account of his son Absalom’s rebellion). They are very similar in structure and content and from understanding their connection, many have said […]

Psalm 3 Continued… Psalm 3 is penned out of great personal tragedy and turmoil but it is also one where David is reminded that nothing that stands against him will prevail because the Lord was with David. So much so, that even though he fled in humiliation and even wept bitterly because of the actions […]

Psalm 3 Continued… The first two verses of this Psalm may have recorded the lowest, dark moment, but it gets much better after that. It is as if the Lord Himself grabs David by the chin and asks him to look up to where his help truly comes from. Psalms 3:3-6 But you are a […]

Psalm 3 Continued… Fleeing from one’s own son must have been not only humiliating but terrible and heart wrenching as well. In 2 Samuel 15:30 it says, “But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads […]

Psalm 3 Psalm 3 was penned by David after his son, Absalom, rebelled and sought to take the kingdom from him. These events are recorded in 2 Samuel 15-18. Absalom made a compelling case that he would be a much better king than his father. Because Absalom was so successful in his plot to take […]

The book of Psalms contain 150 different Psalms (songs). Of those, King David authored 73. This man of war who was also a man of prayer teaches us so much. He was the youngest shepherd son of his father Jesse. The most unlikeliest choice to be anointed king. He lived such vastly differing experiences throughout […]