Take Refuge in the Lord

Andrew McClenaghan - Sunday, 14 July 2024

Take Refuge in the Lord

We can all look back on a time - or times - when God was at work in our lives, but we couldn’t see it at the time. We had fears or troubles or temptations and it seemed like God wasn’t there. We’ve all heard the saying that if you feel like God is not beside you then it’s you who has moved away. David must have felt a bit like that in his fleeing from Saul. Deceiving Saul, lying to the priest at Nob, and pretending to be insane amongst the Philistines, because in the moment he was fearing man more than God and had forgotten all the times God had been with him. Earlier when Samuel anointed David we are told “the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully on David from that day forward” and we see God at work protecting him, but David, like us, had forgotten. But looking back and writing this Psalm he is reminded and able to see what God has done and his response is praise, to call the people to praise with him. He calls people to seek the Lord, to obey the Lord and to take refuge in Him because: “The Lord redeems the life of His servants, and all who take refuge in Him will not be punished”

Scripture References: Psalms 34:1-22, Psalms 75:1-10, 1 Samuel 21:1-14

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