Psalms 18

Today I will be blogging about a Psalm 18 in the Bible. This has become one of my favorite Psalms so far during this Mighty Men study I have been going through.  Even though it is long, this Psalm is one I shall not forget when I have been delivered through certain struggles in my life.   
 This Psalm takes place right after David was delivered from the hands of Saul. This could also be written when David had been king and facing off against other nations. You can glean this assumption because David talks about how God saved him from his enemies. 
He praises God for blessing him through when David obeying him through this time of persecution as well. David describes his ability to obey God through these hard times he faces in Psalm 18:20.
It says in Psalm 18:20, The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me."
David also praises God for hearing him in this struggle in his life.  He recognizes in God's greatness that he hears his cries for help though God is so great and powerful.  He lavishes God in how he saved him through hardship.
He describes how God saved him through hardship and heard his pleas for mercy in verse 18:6.  In this verse great imagery and metaphor is given to God.
Psalm 18:6 says,  "In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help.  From his temple heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears."
David acknowledges that God is his rock through this time of persecution and hardship.  In the psalm he also recognizes his trust in God after he gets him through this time in his life.  In Psalm 18:2, David says,                    "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, and my stronghold."
Throughout the middle half of the Psalm David praises God for his ability to take him through this situation.  He using strong metaphors in this Psalm to get his point across of how great and glorious that God is in his life.  God saved him from this hardship because he trusted in God's plans and ways not his own.
This is personified in verse 19 when David praises God saying, "He brought me into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me."
This opening verse shows David's trust in God's plan to get him through anything in life.  He knows that he can depend in God in any and every situation.  God is our rock upon which our foundation is centered in life.
God brought me through certain hard times in my life and helped me trust him.  The first instance I can think of was the beginning of my senior year of high school after I had gone through a hard time in my life my junior year and the past summer.
Another instance occurred this past year when I was looking for a job in the Broadcast Journalism and God closed those paths in my life.  He lead me to seminary in that situation because he wanted me to get back into ministry because that is where he wanted me to be.   Looking back on the situation I could feel that God was moving in my life for me to go a different path than I wanted to go.
In both situations, God worked in my life helping me trust him more and more.  He reminded me that I can trust him in any and every situation that I may face in my life.
A rock does not move at all.  If we try to move a rock that is in place in the ground then it will stay there for a long period of time.  In the same way,  if we trust God in any and every situation then we can be our rock throughout all our life.               
God is good and he is trustworthy throughout all our life.  He reigns in and through our life though situation that we may face.  Nothing is too big for God to overcome or pull us through in life.