Psalm 3: Part II

Learning how to be more like Jesus through the Psalms?

Psalm 3
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My first reaction to this Psalm was: Who are my foes? If I’m really honest with myself I don’t really have any ‘foes’ to speak of. Not in the David against Absalom/Nation sense anyway.
There isn’t anything inherently wrong with this approach, but if Christ is the center of the scriptures (John 5:39-40), we have to look deeper…seeing Christ here allows me to have the perspective that God intended when He inspired David to write in this situation.

Finding rest

Being freed of his anxieties, the Lord allows David to rest. This is a calm reminder to us all that true rest and peace comes from God (Matthew 11:28-30; Ephesians 2:14). We often pour ourselves out in an effort to find comfort in created things, but nothing created ever lasts (Isaiah 40:6-8). In thinking about this I realized, true worship - living every aspect of our lives in full submission to the Father’s will - IS comfort and rest and peace and all things that we most deeply desire.

Godly fear is wisdom

Looking at Jesus’ example, ‘The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom’ has new meaning (Proverbs 9:10), because if you fear God you needn’t fear anything or anyone else, and in wisdom you start to see the world through His eyes. God is sovereign over all and with complete trust in Him, fear of creation no longer exists. Wisdom is when the fear of the Lord begins and the of the fear of creation ends.