The
first three verses of Psalm 18 set the tone: Worship. What a great
start to this Psalm. Our attention is directed away from ourselves to
the Lord: ‘my strength...my rock, my fortress and my deliverer...my
shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold’(Psalm 18:1-2). The
great testimony of verse 3 - ‘I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be
praised, and I am saved from my enemies’- did not come easily (Psalm
18:4-5). The enemies of the Lord will be brought to judgment (Psalm
18:13-14). ‘The cord of death encompassed me...He delivered me from my
strong enemy...’(Psalm 18:4-5,17-19) - Rejoice in the risen Christ
through whom we have the ‘victory’ over ‘the last enemy...death’(1
Corinthians 15:20,26,54). God is leading us into ‘a broad place’(Psalm
18:19). Step into the future with Him. Don’t hold back! ‘Let go and let
God have His wonderful way’.
‘This
God’ is ‘our God’. He is ‘the Rock’. He is ‘my Rock’. No one can
compare with the Lord our God. He is the living God, the God of our
salvation (Psalm 18:30-31,46). In the Lord, we have salvation: ‘You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty’. In our God, we have victory:
‘You armed me with strength for battle; you made my adversaries bow at
my feet’(Psalm 18:27,39). Do you want to enjoy God’s blessing - His
salvation and His victory? God says, ‘Clothe yourselves with humility’.
Together with His command, we have God’s warning- ‘God opposes the proud’- and God’s promise-
He ‘gives grace to the humble’(1 Peter 5:5). There is a question which
each of us must answer: ‘Who is on the Lord’s side? There is an answer
which of us must give: ‘We are on the Lord’s side’(Church Hymnary, 479).
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