David Experienced Salvation

Synopsis     Psalms 18:9-37     8/31/2021 

God’s responds to the cry of righteous people who are oppressed. According to David, he proceeds from heaven in a fearful, black cloud. And in this way, he saves his chosen people.  

David believed that God had saved him because he honored his laws. Having been saved, David also remembered to remain humble before God. And he praised God.  

More specifically, David recalled how God had empowered him to escape evil. And he used metaphors to describe the exhilaration of this experience because he had nothing else to compare.  

David Experienced Salvation 

God repeatedly saved David from the most difficult military and political crises any leader could ever imagine.  And David celebrated his salvation by describing it in the most lavish and fanciful terms.  

He said he felt like he had been given deer’s feet to jump and skip upon the rocky mountains. He felt so strong that it seemed like he could bend a bow made from bronze. In a similar way, it seemed like he could simply leap over a high, fortified wall and attack a city.

In this way, David experienced the exhilaration of having been saved. 

Experiencing Salvation 

So, I’m wondering. Could I be saved and not feel David’s exhilaration?  

“But you are ‘a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises’ of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9