1–3. These verses contain an account of
a temptation to distrust God, with which David was, upon some unmentioned
occasion, greatly exercised. It may be that in the days when he was in Saul’s
court he was advised to flee at a time when this flight would have been charged
against him as a breach of duty to the king, or a proof of personal cowardice.
When Satan cannot overthrow us by presumption, how craftily will he seek to
ruin us by distrust! He will employ our dearest friends to argue us out of our
confidence, and he will use such plausible logic that unless we once for all
assert our immovable trust in Jehovah, he will make us like the timid bird
which flies to the mountain whenever danger presents itself. David seems to
have felt the force of the advice, for it came home to [his] soul, but
he would rather dare the danger than exhibit a distrust in the Lord his God.
Doubtless, the perils which encompassed David were great and imminent; it was
quite true that his enemies were ready to shoot privily at him;
it was equally correct that the very foundations of law and justice were
destroyed under Saul’s unrighteous government; but what were all these
things to the man whose trust was in God alone? His answer to the question, whatcan the righteous do? would be the counter-question, “What cannot
they do?” When
prayer engages God on our side, and when faith secures the fulfilment of the
promise, what cause can there be for flight, however cruel and mighty our
enemies?
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