17 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.
18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
19 A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all;
In Psalms 34, Saul was King of Israel. He wanted to kill David. David ran away. Saul followed him. David went to Gath, which was a Philistine city. The king of Gath was Abimelech. He was not a friend to David. David became afraid. He should have trusted in the LORD. He did not, but made a plan of his own. He made Abimelech think that he, David, was insane. For this reason, Abimelech did not kill David. In those days it was of the belife that it was wrong to kill "an insane" person. Abimelech sent David away. He went to a cave in Adullam, which was a few miles away. 400 people went to the camp that David made in Adullum. They were running away from a difficult life in Judah. Today we would say that they were refugees. The story is found in I Samuel, chapters 21 and 22. In Psalm 34 David thanked God that he was safe.
In this 34th chapter of Psalms, David is heart broken, he is on the run from King Saul and is forced to act in a manner not befitting David the king; David the warrior. He did not trust in the Lord to deliver him out of the hands of Saul. He devised a plan of his own which God did not approve of.
Pastor Collins, in his sermon told the church that there in no failure in God. We should trust in the heart of God. A dose of pain, affliction, and loss will teach us to be contrite. David had go through many problems--his son left him; He was sick and his family had all turned away; now he was on the run and hiding in a cave. God had to this for David to be repentant.
David made a personal devotion to God, (Ref. Psalm 34:1-3) He here David praise the greatness of God, promising to keep in remembrance during his whole life the goodness which God had bestowed upon him. David declares, “I will extol the Lord at all time; his praise will always be on my lips. My soul will boast in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice" (NIV). The term soul signifies David's spirit, as if he said, I shall always have ground of boasting with my whole heart in God alone, so that I shall never allow myself to fall into forgetfulness of so great a deliverance."
Verse 3, shows still another fruit which would be the result of David's giving thanks to God; namely, "that he shall induce others by his example to the same exercise of devotion; no more, he calls upon all the godly to unite with him in this exercise, inviting and exhorting them heartily and with one consent to praise the Lord."
As Christians, we should remember that although God governs the righteous, and provides for their safety, we are still subject and exposed to miseries. But being tested by trials, we give evidence of God’s invincible constancy, as our deliverer.
If we are exempt from every kind of trials, our faith would languish; we would cease to call upon God, and our faithfulness would remain hidden and unknown.
It is, necessary that we go through various trials that we acknowledge that we have been wonderfully preserved by God. If this should seldom happen, it might appear to be accidental or the result of chance; but when countless and endless evils come upon us in succession, the grace of God cannot be unknown. David, therefore, admonishes the faithful never to lose courage, for God can as easily deliver us a thousand times, and will never disappoint our expectations.
In this 34th chapter of Psalms, David is heart broken, he is on the run from King Saul and is forced to act in a manner not befitting David the king; David the warrior. He did not trust in the Lord to deliver him out of the hands of Saul. He devised a plan of his own which God did not approve of.
Pastor Collins, in his sermon told the church that there in no failure in God. We should trust in the heart of God. A dose of pain, affliction, and loss will teach us to be contrite. David had go through many problems--his son left him; He was sick and his family had all turned away; now he was on the run and hiding in a cave. God had to this for David to be repentant.
David made a personal devotion to God, (Ref. Psalm 34:1-3) He here David praise the greatness of God, promising to keep in remembrance during his whole life the goodness which God had bestowed upon him. David declares, “I will extol the Lord at all time; his praise will always be on my lips. My soul will boast in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice" (NIV). The term soul signifies David's spirit, as if he said, I shall always have ground of boasting with my whole heart in God alone, so that I shall never allow myself to fall into forgetfulness of so great a deliverance."
Verse 3, shows still another fruit which would be the result of David's giving thanks to God; namely, "that he shall induce others by his example to the same exercise of devotion; no more, he calls upon all the godly to unite with him in this exercise, inviting and exhorting them heartily and with one consent to praise the Lord."
As Christians, we should remember that although God governs the righteous, and provides for their safety, we are still subject and exposed to miseries. But being tested by trials, we give evidence of God’s invincible constancy, as our deliverer.
If we are exempt from every kind of trials, our faith would languish; we would cease to call upon God, and our faithfulness would remain hidden and unknown.
It is, necessary that we go through various trials that we acknowledge that we have been wonderfully preserved by God. If this should seldom happen, it might appear to be accidental or the result of chance; but when countless and endless evils come upon us in succession, the grace of God cannot be unknown. David, therefore, admonishes the faithful never to lose courage, for God can as easily deliver us a thousand times, and will never disappoint our expectations.
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