We have here in this passage a prayer of David, in which he declares his sincere intentions in regard to following the Lord; that even when there were some people around him who were thinking that he was selfishly ambitious, and perhaps they were also thinking that he desired to become somebody great, that he was not thinking that way. He confesses in the presence of God, that he had examined himself, and that he knew that he was not proud. Sometimes this is something that we need to do as well; to examine ourselves, to see if we have right motives for the things that we think and say and do. And isn't it good to know that, here at the Lord's table, we find that this is just the place to do that. There are, here in these three verses, three declarations which David makes. Two of them concern humility and how it is learned, and the third is an exhortation to all Israel that they should hope in the Lord. Let's take them in that order.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
