There’s a part of the 23rd Psalm that I never truly related to until this past year. It’s a line David stuck right smack dab in the middle of this most memorable of all the Psalms. Here it is,
“… You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies…”
I love how the message puts it,
“You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies!”
And in the “Word on the Street,”
“you lay out a table, you sit me down;
my rivals arrive from the greatest to the least,
but my cup’s kept full, and my head’s held high
as you boast about me, your least priest,
and make them toast me right through the feast.
boy, does it comfort me!
Point?
God sometimes doesn’t scatter our enemies before He comforts us.
God sometimes doesn’t eliminate them before He comforts us.
God sometimes doesn’t even finish judging them before He comforts us.
But sometimes…He blesses and comforts us—shows us great favor and anoints us to speak boldly in His name AND…
Makes our critics, enemies, back-stabbers and those with evil intentions sit in time-out while He shows them how much He loves us!
I love the Psalms!