King David’s Response in Psalm 3:7

Here is a fun one for you this lovely Monday morning.

Some days you are just in an “odd” mood, like goofy odd.  The other day was one of those days.  I wasn’t feeling real deep and theological during by bible study time but man, was I going to try.  I decided to do some digging into our new Psalm 3:3 sweatshirt that is coming out soon.  It’s one of my favorite anthem verses so I was excited to write the devotional for it.  It’s all about God giving David victory over his enemies and God’s protection in the midst of a dark time.

Well, read psalm 3:7 and remember my mood.

Arise, O LORD!

Rescue me, my God!

Slap all my enemies in the face!

Shatter the teeth of the wicked!

Okay first off, that’s a lot of exclamation points!

Second, now pretend you are Kevin Hart and read it as he would. 

Arise, O LORD!

Rescue me, my God!

Slap all my enemies in the face!

Shatter the teeth of the wicked!

Did you not just emphasize “in the FACE”?!

And did you not chuckle to yourself.

Okay now serious me.

While commentators will speak of poetry and righteous justice, I can’t help but think maybe David is just feeling a little less “put together” with his own son in rebellious pursuit of him.  Maybe these uncharacteristic words and tones came out of him and he’s keeping it real.

I mean, God knows what’s on our hearts.  He wants us to share it with him.  I believe we feel we have to be so refined when we go to him.  And while He is a holy God and we should treat Him as such, just maybe, we need to be a little less fake and keep it real, bearing what our hearts really feel.  I mean would you always want your sons or daughters coming to you all proper?  No.  You’d want them to truly share how they feel, maybe even a little unfiltered.

I believe God wants the same.

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