DAVID’S SWEET CONSOLATION Psalm 3:5-8 “I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who set themselves against me all around. Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God! For You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone; You have broken the teeth of the ungodly. Salvation belongs to the Lord. Your blessing is upon Your people.” “A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.” You will remember the sad story of David’s flight from his own palace, when in the dead of the night, he forded the brook Kedron, and went with a few faithful followers to hide himself for awhile from the fury of his rebellious son, and David in this was a type of the Lord Jesus. He too fled; he, too, passed over the brook Kedron when His own people were in rebellion against Him, and with a feeble band of followers He went to the garden of Gethsemane. “I will not be afraid.” ‘If the Lord sustained me through the night season of the enemy’s territory what have I to fear in the daylight of His dispensations?’ This is the song of the valiant soldier in Christ. Strap on the war harness and charge the enemy oh saint of God. We’ve nothing to fear, our God is with us, “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Rom.8:31). We see David strengthen himself for conflict through the Lord. He realizes only his LORD can save him and thus cries, “Arise, O LORD, save me; O my God.” The conflict the day before was the mere conditioning of the day to come. Today’s deliverance encourages our faith in the next. Why do pastors run from church to church! They don’t want to fight. We learn through one battle that we can no more depend upon our carnal energies to save us in the next as they did in the past. Help and “salvation is of the Lord” initially and in battle: “God is my salvation” in all my battles. It matters not where in the scripture you read, if you read with an unbiased mind, you find that salvation by grace alone is the great doctrine of the Word of God. God established it and it is settled by His Word forever, “Salvation belongeth to the LORD!” In every aspect and every event of it! “And the blessing (of it) is upon His people.” “Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of Thy countenance.” (Psalm 89:15) What a sweet consolation, Christians have their trials, but are always blessed during the times of their sufferings. A carnal man would think, ‘if this is to be blessed, God deliver me from it’. But our Savior Christ pronounced the godly man blessed though a mourner, though a martyr, yet blessed. Job on the dunghill was blessed. The saints are blessed when they are cursed, Shimei cursed David (2 Sam.16:5), and look at his end. Though they are bruised, yet they are blessed. Not only shall they be blessed, but they are blessed “Blessed are the undefiled” (Ps.119:1), “Thy blessing is upon thy people” (Ps.3:8). ~~Terry Worthan, 1938-2022
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