Psalm 7
English Standard Version, David Cochran Audio Bible
1 O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid my friend [ the one at peace with me] with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust.
Selah
6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.
8 The LORD judges the peoples;
judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,
O righteous God!
10 My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.
12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
17 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.
This is a song David sang to the Lord about Saul. Saul falsely accused David of being a traitor, when actually Saul was gripped with fear knowing the anointing of God had left Saul. David believes only God alone could judge each man. And trouble has an ending when put before the Lord.
Perhaps for us today, we can look at our enemies as our own destructive habits. Believe God sees what drives those habits and we ask for His forgiveness and look forward in expectation to God's help. Not merely our own strength, but relying upon His grace. God is steadfast and holy in His love for us. In this context, we become whole with God.
Ultimately the goal of each life following the LORD, is to mirror the light of Jesus Christ. When we compare this Psalm to the life of Jesus, we see that harm was intended by the Roman officials, the Temple elite acting for the darkness of evil. Instead Jesus was not forgotten by Roman officials, the Temple did not continue, darkness was given the most trouble eternity had ever seen and the Light of Jesus still shines. The Church of Jesus continues today! Believers place their trust in Him ~ living, active, moving and pervasive in His believers today!
1 Timothy 3:16
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.
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