Day 6 Psalm 1-14

Day 6 Psalm 1-14

Every Psalm could be given it's own little (or big essay).

I have actually already made comments about Psalm 8 in a previous post.

Instead of commenting on 14 Psalms I will briefly comment on Psalm 3. It is a Psalm I really like and his given me alot of encouragement. 

According to the title of this Psalm, David wrote this Psalm while fleeing from sin Absalom. Read 2 Samuel 11-19 for the back-story to this Psalm. In 2 Samuel 12, David sinned by sleeping with Bathsheba and then killing her husband to cover up his adultery. The prophet Nathan then confronted David with his sin:

9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
11 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. 14 But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.”(2 Samuel 12:9-14)

This prophecys fulfillment is described in the chapters which follow as Davids first son born from that union died, and David was forced on the run by another son called Absalom who attempted to take the Kingdom from David. While David was fleeing, Absalom slept with his concubines on a roof for all to see (2 Samuel 16:22).

While he was on the run many people were despising him at this time as Psalm 3:1-2 describes, with these people even saying that he had no hope in God(they probably said this because of Davids sin, the context seems to suggest this, although the Scripture doesn't say this specifically). Amongst this, despite his sin, David trusted in God, knowing that the Lord sustains him(Psalm 3:5-6) and believing that he had no reason to fear.

Note that what happened to David, although it was a result of sin, it was not a punishment in a legal sense. We know this for sure because the prophet Nathan had said to David "The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die."(2 Samuel 12:13b)

Thus, no matter what has happened in our past, if we hope in the one who is able to take away our sin, we have hope, and have no reason to be afraid.