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1 My heart, is steadfast O God,;
I will sing and make music with all my soul.
2 Awake, harp and lyre!
I will awaken the dawn.
3 I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.
4 For great is your love, higher than the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be over all the earth.
6 Save us and help us with your right hand,
that those you love may be delivered.
7 God has spoken from his sanctuary:
‘In triumph I will parcel out Shechem
and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.
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8 Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim is my helmet,
Judah is my sceptre.
9 Moab is my washbasin,
on Edom I toss my sandal;
over Philistia I shout in triumph.’
10 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us
and no longer go out with our armies?
12 Give us aid against the enemy,
for the help of man is worthless.
13 With God we shall gain the victory,
and he will trample down our enemies.
(NIV)
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Psalm 108: This psalm is composed of fragments from two other psalms. The first section (verses 1-5 is taken from 57:7-11) the second section (verses 6-13, is taken from 60:5-12), with little change in the wording of either fragment. Though taken from psalms of individual lament and national lament, David combines portions of his own previously written (Psalms 57 and 60), to make up this psalm commemorating God’s victories (verses 1-5 are from 57:7-11; verses 6-13 are from 60:5-12). He deleted the laments that began each psalm (57:1:6 and 60:1-4), and combing his own words of exaltation and confidence in God.
You can see David’s faith in God that God will deliver them from their enemies. David tells how God has saved them in the past. If God will not save us who can?
I wonder how many people have cried out to God in the past, now and the future to save them from their troubles. Some people will have been saved because it was part of what God had intended, while others go through the pain and the object of their despair as part of God’s plan to strengthen and lead us through more harder journeys.
Remember the psalmist says ‘ I will sing and make music with all my soul.’ When we have been through the tough times of our lives, we sometime may feel that God has not been there helping and guiding us. Only after the event do we find that God has been there all along, helping us and watching over us, making sure we make our way through it.
Do not forget to that God for His help through the week, helping us to be ready for the tougher times before us.
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