Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

We have another day of Psalms today, another day where David is responding to God in light of his circumstances, and as a refresher, he's been promised the throne,

but the current king has been hunting him down until recently, and he's living in the desert.

Most of these Psalms have some sort of lament woven into them, but also lots of hope.

I'm not sure my heart would be so filled with praise if I were in David's circumstances.

In Psalm 56, David reminds himself of what is eternal,

and he fixes his eyes on that, on God, in the midst of his troubles. It's easy to think God is

distant or unfeeling when we're going through trials, but David knows that's not true. He says

God has kept count of his tossing, has stored his tears in a bottle, and has recorded all of

this in detail in his book. God knows and God sees. He's not distant. David knows that God is for

him, despite what his circumstances seem to say. Psalm 120 is a bit different from most laments.

It's short, and it doesn't end with hope or praise.

It's almost like he wrote it in a rush. And you know what? I love that it got recorded like this.

It's his honest thoughts, his hearts cry to God, unpolished and seemingly incomplete, yet it's

preserved in scripture. This probably mirrors my prayers more closely than half of the

other stuff David wrote. I don't always remember to praise him for who he is and what he's done.

I don't always remember to preach the gospel to myself. And this psalm serves as a reminder from David

that God invites me in the conversation with himself regardless. Psalm 140 is another unique Psalm. David begs

for deliverance from the words and hands and plans of evil men. He asks God to be attentive and he

praises God for being his covering. In verse 7, he says, O Lord, my Lord, the strength of my salvation,

you have covered my head in the day of battle.

This verse reminds me of the helmet of salvation that Paul references in Ephesion 6.

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