How aware are you of how much you need the Lᴏʀᴅ for Life? Today’s couplet is another contrast—with or without, dependent or independent.
David wrote this psalm about the God who had become the focus of his life and not without remembrance of both the highs and lows.
David had been a faithful shepherd over his father’s flocks and gave God the credit. He had faced Goliath in an unfair (for Goliath) skirmish and gave all the glory to God. David had killed his tens of thousands in battle yet remained humble and dependent upon the Lᴏʀᴅ. Even after being anointed King of Israel, he was willing to wait for God to bring it about.
Today’s two verses could have been his life’s motto’s. He had seen up-close how Saul’s pride brought him down while David’s openness to God had made the way before him. He had not championed his own cause but waited upon God to establish the kingdom in God’s time and way.
David also journeyed through the dark times… put in flight both by Saul and threatened by his own troops. He had a favored son betray him, had gone through the darkness of loss and even the disgrace and darkness of sinning against God. But. God always showed up and turned the light back on in David’s circumstances. David knew the wisdom of humility in God and living in God’s light.
I’m thinking there’s a lesson for us even today in David’s humility in God’s light.