“18 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.”
The Psalmist loved God, His strength. He tells of all that God does for Him. He then says that He will call on God and be saved from His enemies.
Who are His enemies? What is happening?
“4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.”
The Psalmist holds nothing back in telling what is happening. One could even say he is being just a bit dramatic. Yet, when he cried to God in his distress, God heard him!
Do you ever feel as if God must be getting tired of your drama? Don’t feel that way! God hears. Oh, God hears and listens and acts. We have to look at the next few verses. We simply can’t stop there. What does God do? Oh, God acts! We have 11 verses of what God does on behalf of his child in distress.
“7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.”
Wow! God moved in mighty and amazing ways on behalf of the Psalmist. He is the same God today and cares about His children when we call unto Him!
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