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Now rescue your beloved people. Answer and save us by your power.
...
Who will bring me into the fortified city? 
Who will bring me victory over Edom?
Have you rejected us, O God? 
Will you no longer march with our armies?Oh, please help us against our enemies, 
for all human help is useless.
With God's help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes.
Psalm 108 6, 10-13 NLT
After the most beautiful and uplifting worshipful first half to this song, David takes us somewhere completely different in the second half. 
It's all about victory, power, winning, it's all about him.
The "mighty things" he wants God to do are all on the outside, all about power, and David's writing sounds like he's a bit lost in his quest to win.
And I do the same thing. Praise God and ask him to fix my problems.
Fix the classroom/online/workplace bully, fix my finances, fix my relationships, fix my problems.
So as I sit with this psalm of 2 halves, its a bit of a mirror into me at times, and I'm drawn back to v1
"My heart is confident in you, 
O God"
Trust
Faith
Confident 
When my heart is lost in all the action and activity of the world around me, the pressures and needs pushing in that are reflected in this 2nd half of David's song, I know I need to go back to the first half and re-anchor myself in faith and trust.
"My heart is confident in you, 
O God"
#psalms
#psalm108
#itsaheartthing 

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