In life everyone seeks refuge, sanctuary, safety, peace, contentment, happiness in something. David sought this in God.

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Having sought refuge in God, David asks God to deliver. This is David’s single petition. "God, I have put my trust in you. I have turned my life over to you. I have invested everything in you. I call on you to deliver." And he elaborates on his present faith in a God who protects and provides the things most needed for a safe and happy life.

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He believes that every single good thing in life comes from the hand of God. God is the giver of every good gift. When God gives only good gifts and when all good things in life come from him, it is rational to turn to God for refuge, for sanctuary, for happiness. David has done the right thing - and so have we!

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David delights to be in the company of the saints, God’s people. Do you?

You know, you can tell a lot about someone by the company he keeps, by the company he wants to keep. David said, "I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’" When Sunday comes, are you glad when someone says, "It’s time to go to the church meeting. It’s time to go up to the house of the Lord"? In whose company do you delight? If it is God’s people, you’ll be here - and like it!

On the other hand, David is just as sure that those who run after someone or something other than God will be the worse for it. And so he has made a decision to not run after something other than God.

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You know, since Adam and Eve God has been trying to convince us that it is for our good to obey him and it is to our detriment to ignore or defy him. We have a history to prove to us the validity of this claim. And we have people all around us proving the same thing. Do we really think the Hollywood types with all their money and beautiful women but who are without God are really happier than the rest of us? Are we too dull and brainwashed to not see even that? Is there anyone here who does not agree with David, who thinks he can ignore God and be happier for it, who thinks he can live his fourscore and ten years and be better off defying God than listening to him?

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"God, you have given me my portion of food and my cup of drink. You have satisfied my hunger and quenched my thirst."

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"God, you have given me a great inheritance. The boundary lines of my inherited property has fallen in pleasant places." Kids are always interested in the inheritance. God’s kids’ have an inheritance like no other. It has already been written in the will. And it is already being doled out. Before they died, Mom and Dad gave each of us kids a part of our inheritance once a year for several years. It was a wonderful gift and a great joy to us. God is already giving out the inheritance to his children while we wait for the rest.

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There is no marriage counselor or family counselor or life counselor better than God - None. He’s free and on call 24-7. All of these blessings come to the man or woman, boy or girl who seeks his refuge in God: delightful people, happier life, a great inheritance, and free unparallelled advice from God.

But there is more.

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David has set God before him, God is on his mind, his attention is always on God. Therefore, he is not shaken. He is not afraid. He is not worried.

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Even his body rests secure. This is probably David’s way of saying, "God, you will keep me alive." But I believe his words mean even more than this. David knew he would one day die. But still, he has such trust in God that he believes that God will somehow rescue him from the death of the body itself and give him eternal joys in his presence. One must appreciate how little they knew about the resurrection in Old Testament days to fully appreciate what David is saying. It was Jesus who brought life and immortality of the body to light through the gospel (2 Tim. 1:10). Till then, God’s people in the Old Testament were practically in the dark concerning the future hope of the resurrection. Yet, here is David expressing a hope that God would somehow deliver him even from death itself. It really is one of the most remarkable statements in all the Old Testament.

It is we Christians who have received this hope in full, we who have been begotten unto a living hope. Indeed, Peter quotes this very passage in his sermon on the day of Pentecost to explain that its’ ultimate meaning was that the great Son of David would not be abandoned to the grave nor his body allowed to see corruption. Read Acts 2:25ff. David didn’t understand the full import of what he was writing, but Peter did (1 Peter 1:10-12). And we do.

Here, then, is the wonderful God in whom we have taken refuge. He is a God who puts us in the company of loving people in whom we delight, he spares us the lot of the wicked, he gives us a grand inheritance, he gives us free and dependable advice that never fails, and he delivers us even from that grim reaper - that dreaded enemy - death. He provides for us a resurrection from the dead. And there is this future - he will fill us with joy in his presence, with eternal pleasures at his right hand.