David seesawed with unpredictability as he fled from Saul, never really knowing who he could trust. Those he once helped informed on him, keeping King Saul and his warriors ever at his back. No safe space existed.

So David in his writings turned to the one he could trust—Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.

Along with Saul, David faced his old enemies the Philistines. Their enmity drove him to the Lord as well—In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise—in God I trust and am not afraid. What can man do to me?

In the midst of turmoil, one truly safe space exists—God and his word. The Lord who sustained David walks among us. The words of God David repeated over and over in the darkness of his cave rest today in the palm of our hands.

Turn to them or lay then aside, but know they are always there for you.

Psalm 54 & 56 in reading the Bible in 2023

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