PERSPECTIVES
FROM DAVID’S 7 SECRETS
Chapter Seven,
“Cry Out and Shout” P. 92
ABOVE IT
We have all
been around people who live “under it”. Under the dark cloud. Not much is very good, bad stuff happens all
the time to just them, no one else. If
only “such and such” would happen, things could be bearable.
The lesson
from David is that he learned to walk daily above the problems of everyday
life. He did not let them drag him
down. True, in so many of his Psalms, he
moans and groans about people out to get him, but he always turns it, in the
end, into trust and praise and belief in God’s deliverance. He was teaching his
people that God would always be there for them.
In Psalm
40:1-3, David talks about being buried in the mud! He said, “The Lord, He turned to me and heard
my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy
pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place
to stand. He put a new song in my
mouth….”
He sang his
way out of the pit!! He was never really
in it. He walked above it. He knew God would handle the problem and it
always gave him a chance to praise Him because of it.
For seven
years, David ran from Saul and his armies, hiding in caves, going hungry and
thirsty. Did he ever say, “poor me” and
give up? No, instead he said, “poor me”
followed by big praise to God, and then built a band of brothers called David’s
Mighty Men.
His attitude
shines through in Ps. 56:13 when he wrote about the Philistines seizing him in
Gath - “You have delivered me from death
and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the light of
life.” Everyone it seems, at that time, was out to get him. Yet, he lived each day above the
circumstance.
How did he
do this?
He was
chosen by God.
(So are you!)
So, he had confidence
in himself and his friends.
(You do too! And in addition to that,
you have today’s remarkable opportunities at your disposal!)
He knew that
God was looking out for him.
(You have the same promise from Jesus
in the Gospels.)
He expected
answers to his prayers.
(Of course You can have the same
expectations.)
Stuff
happens. So what.
LIVE ABOVE IT!
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