Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 56

"Psalm 56:
This superscription relating of the psalm to David’s first stay in Gath under Achish.
This psalm, apparently written when David had been endangered by

the Philistines (1 Sam. 21:10-15), expresses the kind of confidence in the LORD that believers should exude when they find themselves in terrifying circumstance.
David’s natural reaction was to panic (verses 3, 4, 11).
But he demonstrates in the psalm that the believer can replace potential terror with the composure of trust.

I. Fear and Faith (56:1-4).
II. Destroyer and Deliverer (56:5-9).
III. Trust and Thanksgiving (56:10-13).

Title:
“According to Jonath-elem-rechokim”:
Possibly a tune name.

Psalm 56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
Psalm 56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Psalm 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalm 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: 

put Thou my tears into Thy bottle: 

[are they] not in Thy book?

Psalm 56:13 For Thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt]

not [Thou deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin."
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