Reading
SAA Notes
You can read about this incident in 1 Samuel 21. David did not passively sit and wait for God to do things. David used his wits to escape from Gath. He used his wits too to write this acrostic psalm. David gives the glory to the Lord, not to his wits!
SJA Notes
* Mighty God, You cause us to be born again, that we might be like fresh wineskins where You as Spirit can abide.
“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
David is bursting with the wonderful knowledge (true and experienced) of God’s goodness.
To David, to God’s people at that time, and to us through all the ages.
This is what we grasp hold of and chew over.
Taste and see – But see what? THAT the Lord is good!
David is not speaking some false prosperity doctrine when he says that those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. See the tension he raises alongside,
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous,”
These can seem as though two incompatible statements.
God’s people lack no good thing. God’s people have many afflictions.
Verse eight is so important,
“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good!”
God is good! He is the source of goodness and truth, of grace and mercy. Good things, all of them, come from Him!
And like an outcropping of rock on a mountain in the middle of the raging storm, we are blessed to take refuge in Him.
Many will be our afflictions,
“… But the LORD delivers him out of them all.”
God gives us good things!
Foremost among them is His saving us from our sin, delivering us from its eternal consequences.
Praise God for His blessings to us!
* God Above,
Thank You for blessing us with good things, often in the midst of our afflictions.
Thank You for Your word, for Your Spirit working in us, for Your people around us encouraging and exhorting, for Your general grace to the world around us.
Thank You Lord!
Amen.