Week 83, Day 2: A song of salvation
Today’s Reading: 2 Samuel 22:1-51
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
David sang a song to the Lord praising Him for delivering him from his enemies. I often enjoy reading these because they give us an additional glimpse at the mindset of certain people. Speaches, prayers, and songs often open up a window for us to look in and see who this person was. David was a man of great faith. Here he acknowledges and thanks God for being his rock and fortress. Such pronouncements also enable us to see how David describes things in his own words. He calls God the horn of my salvation. This is certainly not a phrase that we would use regularly today. So we get a glimpse of terminology they used but most importantly we see how much David praised God for the good He had done. David says that God recompensed him according to the cleanness of his hands and according to his righteousness. God delivered David from the hands of mightier foes because David was a righteous man who served God faithfully.
Question: If you were to write you own “song of praise” to God, what would it center around and what would it say? This might be a good exercise for all of us to try. Put into writting your praise for God. And then compare this to the kind of things David had to say.
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