🎤 Psalm 7 Song - Rescue Me

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I like the word "refuge." It evokes an image in my mind of a truly safe place, perhaps a secure fortress, or a secret hideaway– somewhere I can feel completely confident. For some reason, I think of big rock walls.

Then, when I connect the idea of my Father in heaven as this very refuge, I realize anew how he wants me to view my place in his love. He is my "rock."

We all have been there, laying awake at night, tossing and turning because of a careless word, a flared temper, a broken relationship. Maybe we've done something to cause an enemy to lie in wait for us.

The writer of this Psalm is so confident in his righteousness. He can't recall ever having done anything wrong. He hasn't repaid evil with evil, nor hurt his foe in anyway. He's willing to put it all on the line.

Probably most of us can't say we are completely innocent. At least we're not innocent without the Saviour's own blood acting as a perfect sacrifice!

The Psalmist may seem a bit vindictive, which I guess is understandable: we all would love to see justice done to our enemy. And yet the right response to our enemies is love.

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Psalm 7
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.

1 O Lord my God, in you I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
2 or like a lion they will tear me apart;
they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.
3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid my ally with harm
or plundered my foe without cause,
5 then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
trample my life to the ground,
and lay my soul in the dust.Selah
6 Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgement.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
and over it take your seat on high.
8 The Lord judges the peoples;
judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous,
you who test the minds and hearts,
O righteous God.
10 God is my shield,
who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
and a God who has indignation every day.
12 If one does not repent, God will whet his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow;
13 he has prepared his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 See how they conceive evil,
and are pregnant with mischief,
and bring forth lies.
15 They make a pit, digging it out,
and fall into the hole that they have made.
16 Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
and on their own heads their violence descends.
17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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