Psalm 27 has been a favorite for a long time…

I was talking with a friend of mine recently, and he was differentiating trials you get “through” to the other side and trials you don’t. I summarize his musings this way:

Let’s say there are two types of situations:

• Type 1: it’s temporary, there is a fix, and life will return to normal or even better than before.
• Type 2: it’s permanent, there is not a fix, and life will not return to “normal.”

His neuropathy is a Type 2, there’s no known cure. My knee replacements were Type 1. And, yes, this prostate glitch is a Type 1. There are treatments for enlarged prostates.

Here’s a newsflash: LIFE is a Type 2. There’s even a verse for that:

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2 Corinthians 4.16 – 18, NKJV)

But along the way, God delivers us from “Type 1” situations. That’s what Psalm 27 is about.

1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In this I will be confident.
4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. (Psalm 27.1 – 4, NKJV)

David expects deliverance:

11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.
13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. (Psalm 27.11 – 13, NKJV)

I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. The Lord is the strength of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?

There’s a beautiful choral arrangement of Psalm 27, done very well by The Stonebriar Community Church Choir of Frisco, Texas. It’s worth the five minutes.

“The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation” by the Stonebriar Community Church Choir