The Lord Upholds My Life: Psalm 54

The Trails Church

Here is David, once again, facing adversity not of his own making, and as a gift to us, we have a window into how David dealt with this adversity before God. Tim Keller said in an interview that the psalms can essentially be summed up in “Lord, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not my will but thine be done… except the psalms give you 150 versions of how you actually get your heart to be able to say that.” That is obviously too broad a brush; not all psalms fit under that rubric, but many do, and we are certainly in a stretch here that fit perfectly. So that is what we will look at this morning - we will look at this righteous man, fleeing for his life, betrayed by people that he’s done no wrong, and we’ll look at how he responds to it and ask what we should learn from it. We will walk through this under three main headers - first, “A Righteous Man’s Prayer” in verses 1-3, then “A Righteous Man’s Confidence” in verses 4-5, and finally, “A Righteous Man’s Praise” in verses 6-7.