This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
It gives so much relevance to these chapters in Psalms reading them in the context of David’s life. It’s easy to read these Psalms and almost feel as if David is being dramatic. Talking about people wanting to kill him and woe is him when all the people are mistreating him.
But as you read it in context, you realize this was for real. He really did have an insane king who was out to kill him, which likely meant he had to constantly be aware of the people around him to make sure they weren’t trying to help the king in this.
I’m again grateful to be able to read through the Bible chronologically to get this better perspective.