“For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.”
~ Psalm 21:7
Hi James and Ellen,
Have you ever tried to write a song? David scribed psalm songs. Psalm 21 is one of David’s psalm songs. David used his psalm songs to talk to God. David used his psalm songs to thank and praise God. David used his psalm songs to confess to God his missteps. David used his psalm songs to remind God of His promises. The director of music used some of David’s psalm songs as he led the singing in the temple of God that was located in the city of Jerusalem. Your grandpaa does not write psalm songs. Your grandpaa is singing voice challenged. Your grandpaa likes to write. Since your grandpaa wrote this missive over sixteen years ago, your grandpaa has written seven short stories that are each 51,350 words plus ‘dot’, ‘dot’, ‘dot’ long, that are only the thoughts of a guy and a gal who have just met for the very first time as he and she reflects on who he and she has just met, on the life dramas and experiences that he and she have gone through before meeting each other and . . . and that have an underlying message of leading a guy, gal or kid who is reading one of these short stories to become a Christ-follower if he or she is not already a Christ-follower. Your grandpaa also likes to write what he writes in a third person – like your grandpaa is doing right now with these missives on every chapter of every book that is included in the Bible and on every book that is in the Bible. Your grandpaa has used Bruno Bullsnake to write some of the prayer/news letters that your grandmaa and grandpaa have sent to their family, friends and acquaintances Your grandpaa got an A on a graduate paper that he had Dufus C. Dormouse write. Have you ever used a third person to write something that you wanted to write? In this psalm song, David used ‘the king’ as a third person to say what he wanted to say to God.
David starts out this psalm song by saying that ‘the king’ – who is himself, rejoices in God’s strength. God is praised by ‘the king’ for the great joy that he is feeling for all the victories that God had given him. God is thanked by ‘the king’ for giving him his heart’s desires and for not holding back any of his lip’s requests. God is recognized and acknowledged by ‘the king’ for having given him the rich life blessings that he has experienced and for putting on his head the pure golden crown that he is literally wearing. God is credited for giving ‘the king’ the kind of life that he requested – a life that ‘the king’ admits to being a whole longer than he had ever expected it to be. God is attributed by ‘the king’ as winning the battles that he is being attributed by God’s specially chosen guys and gals to having won and for the glory, splendor and majesty that is being bestowed on him by God’s specially chosen guys and gals. God is asked by ‘the king’ to confirm that he really is going to be granted an eternal blessing where he really will be able to rejoice in gladness in God’s presence. God is then reminded by ‘the king’ in verse 7, “For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.” God is then reminded by ‘the king’ what He has said that He is going to do to his enemies – such as laying hold of all them, seizing them with His right hand, making them become like a fiery furnace, swallowing them up in His wrath, consuming them with fire, destroying all their descendants from off the face of planet Earth and . . . your grandpaa does not want to be an enemy of God. Your grandmaa and grandpaa are praying that you will live lives as Christ-followers because if you do not, ‘the king’ makes it clear to God that ‘the king’ knows that the evil plots and the wicked schemes of guys and gals who are not Christ-followers will never ever succeed. God is encouraged by ‘the king’ to let Himself be exalted in His strength and that ‘the king’ will lead in the singing and praising of His might.
Do you like to pray to God? What do you say as you are talking with God? Do you ask God for things or do you thank God for the things that you have? Do you ask God to specifically help you – like when you get sick that He will make you well or when you want to go someplace that He will make it possible that you can go or when you want a good grade on a test that He will give you the right answers or do you ask God to specifically help another kid – like for a sick kid that He will have the sick kid become well again or for a poor kid that He will supply daily what the kid needs to survive or for a kid who is living in a difficult situation that He will change the situation’s dynamics so that the kid will be able to live in a happy home? Has your dad, ma or a teacher ever helped you to pray through a psalm song by having you change the noun or pronoun in the psalm song to your name? Wherever you see in this psalm song the king, he, his or him – all who signify David, you would replace the king, he, his or him with your own name. Your grandmaa and grandpaa have done this. If your grandpaa was praying to God right now using the words of this psalm, your grandpaa would be praying to God this way – O LORD, your grandpaa rejoices in your strength. How great is your grandpaa’s joy in the victories that you give! You have granted your grandpaa the desires of your grandpaa’s heart and have not withheld the request of your grandpaa’s lips. If you were to put your names in the focused verse, you would be praying to God this way – for James and Ellen trust in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High, James and Ellen will not be shaken. If you were to do the same thing in the final verse of this psalm song, you would be praying to God – Be exalted O LORD, in your strength; James and Ellen will sing and praise Your might. Your grandpaa thinks that God is really pleased and blessed when one of His specially elected guys, gals, and kids – who He chose to adopt before He formed planet Earth, inserts his or her name in the psalm songs that He had David scribe. Doing this helps a guy, gal and kid learn how to be always talking with God.
Psalm 21 (705)