Righteousness

Struggles

How many of us have struggles in our lives;

How do you handle your struggles - try to hide them, allow they to over take you, try to push through them under you abilities - how do you handle them;

In this Psalm we are going on a journey with David during a time of struggle Saul;

Remember this while Saul was king of Israel David was anointed - chosen by God - to be his replacement;

Can you imagine the stress of knowing your the next king while serving the current king in the palace;

Saul became very envious of David and literally through a javelin at David a couple of times - you think you got struggles;

People told David to run and hide but David chose to run to God;

Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume Psalm 11:1–3

“If you destroy the foundations, if you take good people off from their hope in God, if you can persuade them that their religion is a cheat and a jest and can banter them out of that, you ruin them, and break their hearts indeed, and make them of all men the most miserable.”

Are you hiding in your struggles or trusting God.

Trust

Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume Psalm 11:4–7

The attempt of David’s enemies to discourage his confidence in God engages him to cleave so much the more closely to his first principles, and to review them, which he here does, abundantly to his own satisfaction and the silencing of all temptations to infidelity.

Here is where the rubber meets the road as the saying goes;

As people we have different levels of trust of people - why because we think we know them;

We feel that by there actions they are either good people of bad people;

We look at the surface because we cannot see the depth;

However God sees the surface and the depth as He looks through His righteousness;

God sits on His throne in heaven and sees everything - way beyond our ability and comprehension;

God knows the true intentions of each and everyone of us;

Know if He knows all of this can we trust His righteousness to guide us through struggles.

Favor

Because of God’s righteousness He will always deal appropriately with His creation;

Everyone in the world is given the same cup to drink from, that cup comes from God;

The decision is what part are you going to drink from - the grace of God or the desire of the world;

God offers His grace to everyone but not everyone will chose to accept it;

But understand this His dealing - whether grace or wrath - will be appropriate;

Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume Psalm 11:4–7

In singing this psalm we must encourage and engage ourselves to trust in God at all times, must depend upon him to protect our innocence and make us happy, must dread his frowns as worse than death and desire his favour as better than life.