Psalm 144:5-6

Psalm 144:5-6

The heavenly archer!

Psalm 18 (also written by David) depicts the Lord as a powerful deliverer who saves the King from his prevailing enemies. The Lord is painted as a fearful figure, a divine warrior who comes to earth breathing fire and smoke; He is mounted upon the clouds and flies with the cherubim, soaring on the wings of the wind. There are hailstones and bolts of lightning and mighty thunders in the heavens. David clearly loved this version of God’s presence and viewed the Lord as a mighty warrior who causes fear and scatters his enemies. 

Maybe we are too polite at times and tend to treat the Lord with such respect that we dare not ask Him to show His might and to intervene when enemy forces are massed against us. Instead of putting up with the insidious attacks that are daily mounted against us perhaps we should be pleading for the Lord to part the heavens and come down to scatter the enemy? If the Satan has instructed his minions to shoot their arrows at you and me, are we not entitled to plead with our God to shoot His arrows back and to rout them? Obviously, David was fighting against mortals who were massed together in armies and who occupied identifiable locations. The arrows that you and I face often appear to be random and are mostly spiritual and aimed directly at our minds, but they are equally devastating and there are times when we need to plead for heavenly intervention. I love the idea of the Lord firing back at our accusers and their being scattered by the accuracy of His weapons, don’t you? Let’s not be afraid to ask our God to fight for us and with us. Hallelujah!

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