God My Rock

Posted on August 23, 2014 Updated on August 23, 2014

Keeping a steady walk in life requires placing our trust in someone greater and more powerful, one who has gone before us and knows the beginning and end. That someone is God.

On the day when God delivered David from the hand of all his enemies, even from the hand of King Saul he testified to the One who had seen him through every trial, death threat, isolation from his family, being treated as an outcast which meant that he could not enter the place of worship.

“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my Savior, You save me from violence.” (2 Samuel 22:2-4)

David believed that God was with him even in his years of fleeing the death threats of King Saul. He also knew that God had anointed him king and trusted in God to establish his kingdom in time.

David was faithful to serve God during those years of waiting and chose to humble himself and learn the skills that he would need to be a great king. He learned how to follow God:

“For You are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness.” (2 Samuel 22:29)

He learned humility:

“You save a humble people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.” (2 Samuel 22:28)

He learned where his true strength came from:

“For You equipped me with strength for the battle, You made those who rise against me sink under me.” (2 Samuel 22:40)

He learned the wisdom and blessing of obedient living:

“The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands He rewarded me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.” (2 Samuel 22:21,22)

And once God had established David as king, he could look back and see that God had fulfilled every promise spoken over his life and he offered this praise to God:

“This God–His way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; He is a shield for all those who take refuge in Him.” (2 Samuel 22:31)

Keep steady in the Lord, His way is perfect and He promises to save a humble people.