Sunday, 15 February 2009
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Psalm 7 - When God is silent.
I read the Psalm on Sunday but didn't have time to quiet down and really listen. Here's a few things I have learned from commentaries with this Psalm today.
David was expressing his thirst for God's justice in this Psalm. What happened is that Cush, someone under King Saul, told Saul falsely that David wanted to kill him. David must have felt greatly being misjudged. His reaction was to pray to God to do justice and proved him right. This Psalm is likely to have span a certain period of time because David had gone through a train of emotions within the Psalm. First, David calls for deliverance (v.1-2), then he expresses feelings for being misjudged knowing that he is right (v.3-5). Perhaps after awhile, when nothing seems to have happened, David feels that God seems to be asleep (v.6) and thirsts for His justice to rule over the peoples, and prove David right! (v.7-8) ps to thanks to God in the last line. When God is silent, David draws on his knowledge of God's character as righteous (v.11), who God is to him personally - a shield (v.9), and imagines God is preparing his judgement like sharpening His sword and readying the flaming arrows (v.12-13). Then something must have happened to Cush that Cush "falls into the pit he has made" (v.15), along with other descriptions of Cush's consequences. And David praises the Lord Most High and give thanks for the Lord's righteousness (v.17).
I rarely feel or come upon the circumstance that I'm misjudged. Even if it happens, it is with my family and I would only feel angry but never to the point that I want something bad to happen to them. Though I wish they would look at their own selves and start seeing that we are really all just from the same family. However, this Psalm reminds me to wait in expectation of what we ask of God. When God is silence, we can drawn upon our knowledge of His goodness and use our imagination.
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