But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; 

I trust in God's faithful love forever and ever. 

I will praise you forever for what you have done. In the presence of your faithful people, 

I will put 

my hope 

in your name, 

for it is good.

Psalms 52:8-9 CSB

Psalm 52 is a reminder that we've been looking at a Psalm each week for the last year now!

Psalm 52 finds its inspiration in 1 Samuel 22 and Saul is getting more and more paranoid, and the intro to the Psalm says it's about Doeg the Edomite going to Saul with a tale about what David was up to. 

The first part of the Psalm is David naming the thing that Doeg has done;

"Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery." (v2)

Naming the thing that has been done makes it clear, unacceptable, and that's the first gift of this song. 

Name things as they are. 

The end of the Psalm is the second gift, that David is not going to be caught up in what Doeg says and the way he operates, because his faith and trust is in someone bigger than his immediate circumstances and what Doeg or Saul (the King) might have against him. 

David says I'm going to flourish anyway. 

Bear good fruit anyway. 

Trust God in the face of anything.

Praise Him anyway. 

David's circumstances don't define him, it's who he is in God.

"I will put 

my hope 

in your name, 

for it is good."

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