The Bible Study Podcast, episode 372. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Psalms with Psalm 31.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We continue on today with Psalm 31 in our study of the book of

Psalms. Psalm 31 is yet another Psalm of David, and it's yet another cry for help. And I almost

skipped over this, but we're going to see in a little bit why I did not. One of the things that

this Psalm reminded me of is that we can go back to the same Psalm later

on, and if something has changed in our life, or if we've heard something different, we can look at

it with new eyes. And so that's the experience that I had this week with looking at Psalm 31.

And it goes like this. In you, Lord, I have taken refuge. Let me never be put to shame.

Deliver me in your righteousness. Turn your ear to me. Come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge.

A strong fortress to save me, since you are my rock and my fortress. For the sake of your name, lead and guide me.

Keep me free from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge. Into your hands, I commit my

spirit. Deliver me, Lord, my faithful God. And so this is another Psalm of David where David is in distress. David needs

rescuing. David never tells us in these things exactly when he wrote it or exactly what's going

on in his life at the time and leaves us to guess. The interesting thing about this opening set of

verses for me is we don't know what trap is set for him.

And yet I think that there is something that we can learn from that because I think there are times that we feel trapped.

That we feel like if I go that way, I'm going to have this happen.

If I go that way, I'm going to have something else happen.

And I don't see a way out of this.

I don't see a way clear.

This is certainly one of the things that we run into when I'm doing ministry in Juvenile Hall,

when I'm doing ministry to people who are incarcerated,

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