Psalm 145:7
Psalm 145:7 The hand of deliverance Psalm 18 is once more in David’s mind (assuming that he wrote that Psalm before this one!) in 18:16-7 David writes, “He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me”. Sometimes we are surrounded by threatening forces or powerful circumstances that appear to be about to overwhelm us. In the psalmist’s mind, and this was part of ancient thought processes, was the imagery found in Genesis 1 where chaotic waters covered the earth and had to be subdued and called to order before the Lord could bring light, life and meaning to the earth. We might say that these exterior forces are still capable of overtaking the earth and covering dry land, that is, unless God continues to hold them back. This illustrates the dark experiences of life that trouble us and threaten the status quo and that the Bible associates with the activity of ou...