Psalm 30 ~ O Lord, You have drawn me up

Psalm 30

I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up

and have not let my foes rejoice over me.

2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,

and you have healed me.

3 O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;

you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.

4 Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,

and give thanks to his holy name.

5 For his anger is but for a moment,

and his favor is for a lifetime.

Weeping may tarry for the night,

but joy comes with the morning.

6 As for me, I said in my prosperity,

“I shall never be moved.”

7 By your favor, O Lord,

you made my mountain stand strong;

you hid your face;

I was dismayed.

8 To you, O Lord, I cry,

and to the Lord I plead for mercy:

9 “What profit is there in my death,

if I go down to the pit?

Will the dust praise you?

Will it tell of your faithfulness?

10 Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!

O Lord, be my helper!”

11 You have 

turned for me my mourning into dancing;

you have 

loosed my sackcloth

and clothed me with gladness,

12 that my glory may sing your praise

 and not be silent.

O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

David has used Psalm 30 as the Thanksgiving of David's house being built.

Jeremiah 32:10
I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

This house is where Jeremiah was held in jail by David's descendant. Released by Emperor Nebuchadnezzar. Deuteronomy promises to listen to God is to be blessed.

Consider some of the choices of David's life to bring him to this day of giving Thanks:

David was asked by his father, Jesse, to bring his brothers food for the battle of the Philistines. Israel was in dire need of help for the army, not a prosperous nation when David heard of Goliath.

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According to Professor Aren Maeir, Chairman of Bar-Ilan University's Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, “...this (inscription) appears providing evidence the biblical story of Goliath is, in fact, based on a clear cultural realia from, more or less, the time which is depicted in the biblical text, and recent attempts to claim that Goliath can only be understood in the context of later phases of the Iron Age are unwarranted.”

The tiny shard was unearthed at the site, near a destroyed Phoenician fort, where the Bible says the shepherd boy David killed the giant Goliath. The pottery shard, written in the language used by the Hebrews at the time, has been dated to as early as 975BC, based on burned olive pits found nearby that have been carbon-dated at Oxford University. Researchers have not yet been able to decipher the full text of its five lines but they have translated the words for "king", "judge", and "slave," suggesting it was written by a trained scribe in the king's court.

The Daily Wire reports this beyond the Goliath Shard.
The Story Of David And Goliath Gets Archaeological Evidence Backing It Up
https://www.dailywire.com/news/37279/story-david-and-goliath-gets-archaeological-hank-berrien

"Scoffers beware: the Biblical tale of David and Goliath just got more real than ever, thanks to an archaeological discovery that fits the Biblical description of Goliath’s armor.

In the Biblical tale, roughly 3,000 years ago, David, when he was still a young shepherd and not yet the immortal king, engaged in single combat on behalf of the Jews against Goliath, the huge champion of the Jews’ arch-enemies: the Philistines. The story read like this:

A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a weaver’s rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him.

Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.”

After David volunteered to fight Goliath, David confronted him: “As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.”

As Haaretz reports, in 2017 archaeologists found shards of pottery in Philistine Gath that were inscribed with names similar to Goliath’s. In the first book of Samuel, it states, “He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze ... on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back.”

Haaretz notes, “Now, if the story had been 7th or 6th century B.C.E. fiction, written hundreds of years after the event, the author would have had no idea how warriors had been garbed in the earlier Bronze Age. … To sum up, Goliath seems to have worn contemporary Bronze Age gear, scribes did exist shortly after his time and possibly within it, and the biblical descriptions suit other ancient texts referring to armies led by champions, rather than as the impersonal institutions of later texts. … The accurate description of a Bronze Age warrior’s equipment opens up the possibility that a memory was handed down over several centuries, embellished to be sure, but with a core of truth.”



Choices -

David, because of his anointing, felt he would defeat Goliath.

Ran after King Saul was afraid of him and his first wife was suddenly cold as the political cold held on.

Did not kill the unpopular King Saul.

Ran for his life and found safe hiding for his father's family.

Went to work while a mercenary and found his wives and children were kidnapped. Did not write them off and did rescue them as his own personal rag-tag army wanted to kill David.

Suffered three separate coronations because the anointing of God appeared to disappear and relatives of Saul's kept appearing as mini-kings.

Refused to work against Israel.

David made wrong decisions as well.

David chose unlikely choices.
It's probably apparent there was not always a distinct Plan - other than God's Plan.  David's own mercenary army doubted him. David knew dissent all his life. And in finding David trusted the Mercy of God - David found his reasons to Give Thanks.

We find David built outside of the City Walls - secure and security - to be able to see God's earth, to see approaching danger, to find what the lives were of God's people. David's House was found by examining Scripture.

Jesus sailed the Sea of Galilee a few times all day. Jesus could be found, we know this from scripture. When we find our lives in the same waters day after day, we can rely with faith - God is Working. Finding each day we make choices to please God and God, Himself the Almighty, will be Pleased. In finding Peace with God, David found Joy.

Psalm 59:16
I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.

Psalm 88:13
I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.




Abba,

We trust Your Willing Blessings to see us in Your Plan each day.

Psalm 19:2
Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

Bless us to remain in Jesus Christ. Bless our family and Loved Ones to have the Joy and Encouragement being our Faith, Hope and Love. Bless those who do not yet know yet and the generations unborn.

Bless our cares to be lifted so high we are able to care for the Nation trusting in You - for Your Willing Blessings.

Bless our cares to be so Loved by You, we rejoice knowing Your Good Creation is filled with the prayers of Your Beloved Children. The Good News of Jesus Christ is Good as many times as You called Your Creation Good in Genesis. Ongoing Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

Jesus is Good. Our righteousness in Him. And He has blessed us to ask for more Heaven upon earth to give us Your Good Will. Our Hope and our Future.

Jesus has called us to Pray with Belief. We place the needs of those we love to be healed of cancer and dire concerns.

We will find our Thanksgiving in the Glory of God. And we will shine forth in Jesus Christ.

Amen.

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