Summary: David can't find anyone to trust but God. The humans all around him will break trust given the first advantageous opportunity. So he goes all in on God.
Response: Now this one I think I get. You can't quite say "God alone" and then extol the virtues of anyone else. If it's God alone, He's it. I pray I could lift Him that high mentally, even though He deserves so much more.
Summary: David compares God to the top of a mountain, at which one is safe.
Response: Hey, other than an oddly placed "long live the king" segment, this one was fairly normal. David wants to be like a welcome visitor or one under temporary shelter with God; how cool then that God wants to offer permanent residence in Him!
Summary: David notes God's rejection of His people. He asks to be saved from his enemies.
Response: Again, feeling rejection and feeling salvation. Maybe it's that feeling a change in your own heart is really difficult? I don't know. Still we press on.
Summary: David compares his enemies to a pack of wild dogs and more or less asks God to put them down.
Response: I briefly considered not posting about this one today. Still, I want to work through this, even though I've done it before. Yes, I get that David's life was literally at stake, that he is really faithful to God and that his enemies are really bad guys. But it's hard to reconcile a kill-'em-all mindset with a Jesus I know that, when His enemies threatened to kill Him, literally died and took their sin with Him. Compared to that, David's pleas for his versions of justice or revenge just seem unloving.
Summary: David belittles the wicked who, though they have power here, do not have it for long. He calls on God to judge them harshly and makes several grisly metaphors.
Response: I continue trying to persevere through these psalms. God grant me patience!
Summary: David, hiding from enemies, praises God as safe Shelter but also a great Glorious One, whose might and praise stretch farther than the eye can see.
Response: Yes there's the enemy-snare thing; I'm not worried about it just this second. Help me to dwell in You, Lord, when stress comes; help me to join freely in the praise You deserve.
Summary: David asks for God to destroy his enemies, promising to serve joyfully in return.
Response: Hey, we got something! I guess that's not fair to David, literally captured by a neighboring country. Still, the last verse is something I can really sink my teeth into.
