Revelation Leads To Love

Yesterday, I shared that David’s love came from knowledge of God as he studied God’s revelation of Himself in the Word. In verses 12-14 you find a description of God moving against the Canaanites and even the Egyptians.

“Out of the brightness before him

hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

The LORD also thundered in the heavens,

and the Most High uttered his voice,

hailstones and coals of fire.

And he sent out his arrows and scattered them;

he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.”

We have no record of God doing these specific things in David’s life, but David knew that the God who delivered Israel from their enemies at the beginning was the same God who delivered him and He is the same God who delivers us. It is true—greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. Spurgeon said David accommodates the descriptions of former displays of the divine majesty into his own hymn.

Verse 15, “Then the channels of the sea were seen,

and the foundations of the world were laid bare

at your rebuke, O LORD,

at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.”

That seems to speak of the Red Sea deliverance and then in 16-19 David moves to his own personal deliverances. I love what he says in verse 19, “He brought me out into a broad place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.” One of the greatest benefits of reading the Old Testament is that it simply builds our faith. If God did that in their life…He can move in my life. Their story becomes our story.

I have three pastor friends who are like brothers. We spend a week together every year and three of us are able to get together every six weeks or so, but it is amazing to see what 25 plus years of friendship does. We often tell the same stories and the same jokes. In fact, I have heard some of their stories so often that they seem to become my story. I wasn’t there, but I’ve heard it so many times that I feel like I was there.

The God of the Old Testament is our God and His people are our people—we can take those deliverances and build confidence and faith in our own life and know that He will deliver us. Read His Word, get to know Him, and find yourself falling in love with Him more and more.