Psalm 18:42 
Trample on them!
     This is a very vengeful verse and we need to try to understand if David is being particularly boastful or does this text have a deeper meaning? The Israelites made a Golden Calf that they worshipped while Moses was hidden on top on Mount Sinai, where he received the Law and Commandments from God. As Moses made his way down the fiery mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hands he was shocked to see the people, led by Aaron, prostrating themselves to this abominable, golden image. Subsequently, for 40 days and 40 nights he would not eat or drink for fear of the Lord’s anger against the Israelites. God listened to his cries and did not destroy the people, so Moses took the calf and burned it in the fire and then crushed it and ground it down to a powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a mountain stream. Deuteronomy 9. 
We have come to realise that David often uses analogies from earlier events in Israel’s history to describe his own experience and it seems that is what he is doing here. He knows that the pagan enemies of God in the land, with their effigies, are no different to the evil image that Moses destroyed. They, and their demonic images and icons, must be utterly crushed and broken and ground into dust until nothing remains. So it must be with any object or idolatrous object that we may own or pay homage to, our worship is in Spirit and in truth and nothing else, even sentimental objects, should aid our worship or our service. 
It is challenging to reflect that just as Moses fasted for 40 days and 40 nights as he pleaded for the salvation of the Israelites, so our Lord Jesus fasted for the same period, in the wilderness, as He pleaded for the salvation of the world. In so doing both men overcame their adversaries and saw the powerful redemptive work of God in the land. The first of these was the bearer of the Law and Commandments and the Old Covenant. The second fulfilled the Law and Commandments and instigated a New Covenant. When Jesus spoke of the battle against demonic powers to the helpless disciples, at the foot of Transfiguration Mountain, he told them that they could not drive out evil spirits because, “This kind can only come out by prayer and fasting.” (The NIV translation here Is not correct and in the corresponding passage in Matthew 17, verse 21 is missed out!) If we cannot follow the lead of Moses and Jesus Christ who can we follow? Both men ground their spiritual enemies into dust after they had fasted and prayed.
It seems that the second half of this verse correctly reads, “I poured them out like mud in the streets.” Or “I cast them out like dirt in the streets!” Either way the meaning is obvious. Our God is greater than all the secondary powers and He will help us in the battle but there may be a time when fasting and prayer is the only solution

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