Content is out, need to relate it to my life.
Here is the effort of trying to relate it to my life.
v1: Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle
Gives thanks to God, indeed, the wars are the greater scale of battle, and the linkage of the battles of wars are just like the linkage of the fingers of hands. The hand will not be what it is without the fingers, the individual fingers that made up the different roles, each fulfiling its task. Just like battles of a war, a war is consist of several battles, and how the relationship between the battles determines the nature of the war. Just as we are trained to fight in each of the battle, the bigger picture of the war we too have to keep in mind. The intregration of how the littles victory of the battles have the impact on the victory of the war. Thus, just as we are faithful with the little things, the little task that God have placed upon us to train us, slowly we can be learn and appreciate to be effective as a complete hand, seeing the bigger picture.
Viewing it from a different aspect, the scale of the usage of the tools we have for the scale that is needed for the task.
V2 He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues people under me
Applying a direct relation between loving God and my fortress, my stronghold with my deliverer, God is a place of refuge, also a place where you can see victories. In verse 6-7 where God helped to scatter the enemies and rout them. This seems to be an offensive act instead of a defensive act.
Verse 7 and 11 are where God is my deliverer, where he deliever and rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies whose right hands are deceitful. Lies and deception are common tools that the enemies use against us. The battle of the mind is the summary of it.
But also lets us not forget to sing a new song to God, to the One who gives victory to kings, who delievers his servant David from the deadly sword. The God who delievers deserve all our praise.
Verse 12-14 will encompassed the legacy and beauty of God's blessing, the scale which one king will be bless.
Verse 15: Blessed are the people of whom this is true = as with respect to verse 12-14, Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. This 2 parts of the verse implies that blessed are indeed the people who have the legacy and the assest, also too blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. Relating them together can implies that blessed are the people whose God is the Lord with the equal blessing as those who have the legacy and the assest.
Verse 3 is pretty interesting - O Lord, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him.
A simple Psalm, praising God who trains hands for war, fingers for battle, how is a loving God and fortress, stronghold and deliverer, shield. Finally, blessed are the people whose God is the Lord and show how blessed the people are compared with. The assurance of God in one's life.
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