“You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.”
This short verse covers a wide area. God is referred to as a “hiding place.” This means God was David’s refuge. Being chased by Saul, this was a great comfort for David. He also declared that God would protect him from trouble. What caught my imagination in this verse was, “and surrounds me with songs of deliverance.” We might say that the first two referred to physical protection and the “songs of deliverance” referred to David’s heart or his sense of security. Using my “holy imagination” (lol) I thought about what such a song would entail. I can’t read David’s mind, but I can think of how the Bible portrays God’s deliverance. Following is what I came up with: A song of deliverance is a song of deliverance from sin. From Genesis 3, with the fall of Adam and Eve, throughout the rest of the Bible the main problem of humankind is sin. Sin is the cause of most of the problems of the world. Sin causes people to ignore God and to feel isolated from Him. God created us to be close to Him, but sin causes us to move away from Him. Sin is the cause of the ruin of many people’s lives. God has taken action to give us a song of deliverance from sin: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) Which also enabled John to write: “If we confess our sins, He (Jesus) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1John 1:9) Through Jesus, God has given us hope that sin does not have to destroy our lives or send us to hell. Most of the people in the world today need to hear this song of deliverance. That is why we need to sing it loudly and clearly all over the world! A song of deliverance is a song of deliverance from dread. Dread is a result of fear. It is a nagging feeling of apprehension about what might happen in the future. Looking at the world news today, I could be filled with dread. Whenever I have this dreadful feeling, I go to God in prayer and remember that He is in control. We need to remember that, “the earth is the Lord’s and fullness thereof…” (Psalm 24:1) There is a song that I like to sing occasionally that reminds me of God’s control: “He’s got the whole world in His hands…” If we believe that this is true, we believe that He has us in His hands as well. We do not have to dread the future because we know that God will be there with us. There is an old cliché that I occasionally recall, “I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.” As clichéd as this has become, it is, nevertheless, true. David, who wrote this psalm, knew the value of trusting in God because of all of the trouble that he encountered at the hands of Saul and his son Absalom. Paul knew the value of trusting in God because of all of the troubles that He encountered in his service for Christ. We need to develop our faith so that we can sing a song of deliverance. A song of deliverance is song of deliverance from the fear of death. Hebrews 2:14-15 reminds us of why we can sing this song: “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, the devil; 15. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” Because of Jesus, we do not have to be in bondage to the fear of death. Jesus comes into our lives and puts the new song of deliverance in our hearts. Just as Jesus goes with us through life, He will be with us in death. There are other songs of deliverance that we can sing, but I think that the three that I have given are songs that you should sing. Bro. Joe
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