Transcript: Daily Christian Devotional | Finding Hope in Psalm 11

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We hope this will be a blessing to them today. We just ask you all this in your precious name. Amen. So if you have your Bibles today, we're going to be in Psalms 11. So let's start here in verse 1. In the Lord put I my trust. How say ye to my soul, flee as a bird to your mountain? For lo, the wicked bend their bow. They make ready their arrow upon the stream, that they may frivolously shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes, behold, his eyelids try the children of men. The Lord try the righteousness, but the wicked and him that loveth violence, his soul hate it. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire, and brimstone, and a horrible tempest. This shall be the portion of their cup For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness his countenance doeth behold the upright So, here, I did some studying in this, and it's really unique. David who is king of Israel is having his friends are giving him advice and you know how that goes sometimes the advice is good and sometimes the advice ain't right but we look here that so they're like saying David we're like we're afraid for your life you know you need to flee but David's trust is in God you know so let's look here and find out what's going on with David and all this so we're going to look here first in 11 through 1 through 4 and I have some stuff on my phone also so let's read here David was forced to flee for safety several times being God's anointed king did not make him immune to injustice for hatred from Saul and others. He may have written the Psalms when Saul was hunting him. Both instances, David fled, but not as if he was lost. He knew God was in control. While David wisely anointed I mean, David wisely avoided trouble. He did not fearfully run away from his troubles. We also see here, 11, 1 through 4, here it seems that as though David was countering those who were advising him to run from his enemies. David's faith contrasted dramatically with the fear of the advisor who were testing him to flee. Faith in God keeps us from losing hope and helps us resist fear. David's advisors were afraid because they saw only frightened circumstances and a crumbling foundation. David was confronted and optimistic because he knew God was greater than anything his enemies could bring against him So, a lot of times, let me get my phone here too so we get this going. Just give me a minute. Okay, so lots of times we get a lot of advice from friends, and we're going through a terrible situation. and we put our trust in God, but we're listening to our friends too, to say, hey, you need to do this, you need to do that, and we look here, on my phone here, you know, that in the years before he took the throne of Israel, David lived the life of a fugitive. He was constantly hunted by King Saul, and he lived in constant danger in such a time. His friends advised him, and we read this, flee as a bird to your mountain. His friends meant, well, but David knew it was the wrong thing to do. So, how do we react? I'm sorry about trying to change this up. How do we react to when friends, right, friends tell us one way and we're in a fearful moment. You know, it's kind of a bad situation when we're in fear. How do we, I know sometimes we listen to our friends and then that gets us in more trouble. the friends mean well, you know, but I think we need to listen to God more, you know, than our friends. So let's go ahead and see what we got here. Number one, he would rather dare the danger than exhibit a distrust in the Lord, his God. And that's from Spurgeon. Number two, David remembers the words of fear in the mouths of his friends. He said, For look, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the screen, that they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart. If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? For look the wicked bend their bow they make ready their arrow on the string In today language David friends would say look there a loaded gun to your head and you have to run The advice given to David is well meant, but ungodly. It is like when Peter advised Jesus not to go to the way to the cross. Peter meant well, but he was really being used by the devil. We must be careful with advice we give to others. First, we must always mind our own business and not be busybodies. And this is in 1 Thessalonians 4.11, 1 Timothy 5.13. Second, we can be too confident in our perception of a situation. Job's friend confidently said, I will tell you, you hear me, what I have seen and what I have declared. but he was wrong our motive is good and right but the advice is wrong so there's a lot of situations I think before we give advice as friends to give to other friends that is going into trouble I think we need to pray about how we should say what we're going to say to them and ask God to help us you know to help that friend but give us godly advice to give them not just to you know because if there's a fearful situation we need to ask God to give us to help us to give them advice so we don't give them the wrong advice and give them more anxiety and fear upon what they're already going through so let's end in prayer dear Heavenly Father thank you so much for this time Lord we just ask you Lord to bless this message today and we just ask you Lord to help those that are watching if they're going through troubles and trials and fear like David's going through I pray Lord that whoever's giving advice today would pray before they give advice thank you Lord for your love and your kindness in Christ's name we pray amen Thank you.