Finding the “right” group…
Our family moved when I was in the 4th and 6th grades…the second one was the most traumatic…junior high years, secrets, hormones, class cliques, etc…etc…
We moved to a small town where friendships had long been established and new students were an oddity …consequently making new friends was hard…(although I established lifelong friends at that school)..the beginning was rough…girls that age have cliques which are hard to “break into”, hard to be “accepted “…there was no bullying that I was aware of, just finding your way into the “right” group, fitting in…add to that, I was shy, quiet…it took time to adjust, find the friends who I trusted…and the by the middle of year, I was ensconced into a group…which changed the following year…
But, God used those times, those experiences, those people in my life… for good…
Thank YOU…
David,in chapter 22 of 1 Samuel, is establishing his “group”…his family, “all those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader…400 men…”What a group…to form into an army…
David, who wanted to serve the king…who served the real King…became an “outlaw”…
He wrote his “outlaw” psalms during this time…
Written about Doeg going into the town of the priests and killing them and the town of people…
“Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?
Why do you boast all day long,you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?
You who practice deceit,your tongue plots destruction;it is like a sharpened razor.
You love evil rather than good,falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
You love every harmful word,you deceitful tongue!
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;he will uproot you from the land of the living.
The righteous will see and fear;they will laugh at you, saying, “Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God;I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.
For what you have done I will always praise youin the presence of your faithful people.
And I will hope in your name,for your name is good.”
Ps.52.1-9
Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me,for in you I take refuge.I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.
Ps.57.1
“These psalms are classic illustrations of the adage that “poets learn in suffering what they teach in song”. Ironically, the sweetest songs are born out of the saddest moments. As we read these psalms in connection with their events in 1 Samuel, we observe how God uses the refining fires of persecution to forge and shape the character and faith of David.”
https://www.onethingministries.net/word-of-the-lord/articles/the-psalms-in-the-narrative-flow-of-davids-life/
Awake my soul….Psalm 57..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmfRRdSm2us
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