The king is the speaker in every Psalm. He is the one who is identified in Ps 2 as not only king, but also Son and Christ. By listening to His prayers, we have learned a great deal about how to pray. The psalm before us tonight is no exception. This psalm is in triplicate. Three times the king prays for essentially the same request: deliver me from my enemies. Each time he concludes his prayer with a promise to worship God for delivering him. Do we see here a small glimpse of the great prayer in Gethsemane, the prayer that the disciples did not hear because they were asleep? The evangelists give us one tantalizing hint: "So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again" (Mat 26:44). Where did our Lord get the idea of praying the same request for deliverance from enemies three times in a row? In any case, the king is not all gloom and doom. He prays with the understanding that God is going to deliver him, and he speaks of the joy that is set before him: "My soul shall rejoice in the LORD; it shall exult in His salvation" (v. 9). For the joy that is set before him, he prays against his enemies— and in the process, shows us not only how to pray against our enemies but also how to love our enemies.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
