Sustained By His Word – October 07, 2025 (318/365)

Psalm 7

In You Do I Take Refuge

A SHIGGAION OF DAVID, WHICH HE SANG TO THE LORD CONCERNING THE WORDS OF CUSH, A BENJAMINITE.

1 O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

3 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

4 if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

The Word always stays. Just as Jesus tells us that He will never leave us nor forsake us, the Word is always with us. It is near to us, close to us, ready to be revealed at any moment, even in darkness… ESPECIALLY in the darkness.

God is faithful and His Word is proof. For this, we give thanks – I give thanks. Even in the valley, He is with us, surrounding us with psalms and songs of deliverance. He sees us through it all, and He lovingly moves, that His children are taken care of.

Indeed, in Him we take refuge. Indeed, we claim the promise of this Word in particular – that He would save us, and our families; He would save me, my mother, my brothers and their families from all who would pursue us.

He delivers us from those who, as lions, seek to tear our souls apart. He delivers us from that old lion that only roars, because it is all he could do.

I acknowledge that we are still in a world that is suffering the consequences of sin – as such, things happen to us, and we suffer.

We are also suffering the consequences of our own faulty decisions – as such, we made things happen, and we suffer.

However, we continue to give thanks to the Lord, because I have reason to believe that by His grace, we are still rescued. We are still delivered.

From the viewpoint of eternity, where time and space are meaningless, we are enjoying redemption, celebrating reconciliation… and this is the reason why we rejoice in the fire.

The grace of God is the reason why we praise in the pits, and have peace in the utter chaos.

6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.

8 The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

Indeed, let us continue to take refuge in the Lord, and let us give thanks to Him – for He is our Avenger, rising in infinite superiority above any and all who call themselves our enemies, and seek our silence, humiliation, pain and death.

He rises above and shines His light over them, and over all, before the assemblies, that ALL would come to the Truth – that He alone is God, and He establishes the righteous.

By Christ alone have we been made righteous. Christ Himself is our righteousness – however, we are also the righteousness of God in Christ. It is in Christ, and in Christ alone that we trust.

We trust Him and depend on Him. It’s only through Him that we can look through these verses with confidence and security, knowing that we are the ones the Psalmist refers to as righteous.

…Not on our own. Not by our works. By no means! It is only through Christ and His finished work that we are bold to call God our Father.

Thank You, Jesus – for by You we shall see the evil of the wicked come to an end. Through You we have been made righteous, and our Father establishes us in all ways.

10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

11 God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;

13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

We give glory to the name of Jesus, who loves us and is here for us – He is Faithful and True, the Shield who is with us as He is with God. He is our Salvation, He is our Reconciliation, our Righteousness and our Eternal Life.

By the grace of God demonstrated by the Holy Spirit, we have heard the Word spoken to us, and Christ authored His faith in us. We are saved from the wrath of God, all because of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

15 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.

16 His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.

By their own works, the wicked suffer the impact of their own mischief. They fall into the pits they dig. They inflict additional pain upon themselves as they deal pain to others… caught in an endless cycle that would only lead to death and more death.

By the finished work of Christ, we are saved from the wrath of God, the perpetual pain of this fractured reality, and from a hopeless, eventual oblivion.

By the finished work of Christ, we are saved INTO the favor of our Father, peace that goes beyond all human reasoning, and into everlasting life – life beyond mere existence, life in eternity.

17 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

Thank You, my glorious Lord, for everything. Thank You for Your Word that faithfully sustains me, as You sustain me.

All my concerns, all my burdens are at Your feet. I trust in You.

Thank You, Father, that as I trust in You, I shall not be put to shame.

Thank You, my gracious Lord, for everything.

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