Mike's Day 3: "You are a shield around me, Oh LORD"

Psalm 3: David is crying out to YHWH. In the face of all his enemies who are out to get him, he asks for and reaffirms the fact that from the LORD comes deliverance.

Here, I think, we have a common characteristic of the Psalms: an 'I' Psalm. Compared to the 'man' of Psalms 1 and the 'nations' of Psalm 2, this is the Psalm of an individual to his God in the face of what he percieves to be insurmountable opposition.

Yet in the midst of this he is able to declare that God will deliver him. From this comes his sustenance, the ability to lift up his head.

Gosh don't we sometimes feel like we are over our heads, and need to read Psalms like this every second of every day?

No, I am not surrounded by 10,000 drawn up against me on every side, but sometimes facing the tasks of the day, whatever they may be, can feel like a challenge of these proportions; and in reading this Psalm we are reminded of the source of our courage: God - Shield, Sustainer, Deliverer.

We follow a God who delivers: and that goes for whoever you are, whereever you are whatever you have done, as Chrissy read today in Romans 3.