In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
David pours out complaint and prayer together, his mind caught between distress and confidence in God's mercy. Whether he wrote this during his desperate flight to Gath or after deliverance, the psalm shows him clinging to faith even when fear drove him to feign madness, a weakness of the flesh that did not extinguish the exercise of prayer.
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Commenting on Psalm 56:1-13
Faith brings forth praise, and God's promise is the noblest subject for thanksgiving. Trust in Him alone, and fear vanishes: what can mere flesh accomplish against me? Man is grass, in His name I defy their utmost wrath.
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David threw himself into God's hands even though fear and folly had thrown him into the Philistines'. He was like a silent dove, driven from his nest, mourning and melancholy yet patient, murmuring neither against God nor against those who troubled him, a pattern for all the afflicted.
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Commenting on Psalm 56:1-7