God the Victor
David is God’s chosen king. And he knows that it is God alone
who brings him victory on the battlefield. He gives the skill (v1) and the
weapons (v2). He cares about His people (v3), even in their frailty (v4). He
will have the victory over His enemies, who are David’s enemies, whether now or
in eternity (v5-11).
And the result of this victory? Well deliverance rightly
results in praise and worship to the deliverer (v9-10). Always. And by grace it
may also result in material blessing of God’s people (v12-14), those living
under the right rule of God’s king - David then, the Lord Jesus Christ now. A
maybe then, a certainty in eternity.
Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD, v15. Blessed
are we who have been rescued forever by the hand from on high, God in human
form dying on a cross. Blessed are God’s people now by worshipping the Victor
and Rescuer as Lord, and blessed will be God’s people forever and completely in
heaven where the idyllic vision of v12-14 will be realised.
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