We all would like to think that we know where we are going and how to get there.

But at every stage in life, we need divine direction. God has promised to guide us if we simply follow.

The fifth and final section of Psalms are referred to as Deuteronomy Psalms because they remind

us to keep returning to the truth of God's Word.

Join us as we study them with Scott Pauli today. Imagine staring the enemy in the face, marching out onto an active battlefield, artillery all around, danger in the air, and you're singing. Someone says,

that's a strange sight. Well, I want you to know that for the Christian, we are always facing

the enemy. We are always on the battlefield. The spiritual warfare is raging. The devil's arsenal

has been turned on us. And yet yet God's soldiers, they can sing

their way into the battle. In fact, they can only sing their way into the battle, they can sing all

the way through the battle, and they can come out the other side singing because our God is the

victor. We've come to a warrior Psalm, Psalm 108, and yet it is not just a

warrior psalm, it is a warrior's psalm of praise. In fact, Charles Spurgeon referred to it as the

warrior's mourning song. And the idea is it was the song that the soldier would sing as he was preparing himself for the

conflict of that day. It is a song to remind himself of who's on his side and whose side he's on.

Listen to the beginning of it. David writes, O God, my heart is fixed. I will sing and give praise even with my glory. Awake, sultan harp, I myself will

awake early. I will praise the O Lord among the people, and I will sing praises under the among the nations,

for thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth under the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens and

thy glory above all the earth that thy beloved may be delivered, save with thy right hand and answer me.

The idea is that the warrior, king, David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, together brings together both of those realities.

The fact that there is a fight on, and yet you can still have a song in your heart.

Taken from another portion of scripture, the joy of the Lord can be your strength.

That's really what he's praying for as he enters into the conflict.

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