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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Psalms 54:1-7
After Doeg the Edomite, the Ziphites had in their turn treacherously informed Saul about the movements of David, his rival, and had allowed him to track David down. We have the account of this in 1 Samuel 23:19 . . ., but one very significant thing is not mentioned there: it is this prayer of utmost confidence which the rejected king addressed to his God in the hour of danger.
Likewise for the Christian there should be, right through all the circumstances of every day, a texture of prayers woven in secret between the Lord and himself. This is what we find, for example, throughout the whole of the book of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 1:11; Nehemiah 2:4; Nehemiah 4:4; Nehemiah 5:19; Nehemiah 6:14 . . .). The world which has not set God before itself (v. 3) and can understand nothing of the power of prayer, will put down to a "lucky chance" the way in which a believer escapes the dangers which threaten him (just see how in 1 Samuel 23:26 Saul was always seeking David on the opposite side of the mountain from where he was). But the believer knows the Name of the One who saves him out of every trouble, and this is the Name which he praises (vv. 1, 6, 7). God is his help, but more than that, for the whole of the time while his trials last, He upholds the soul which might otherwise be discouraged (v. 4).
