Foxhole Faith

Summary

The observant student will notice that this psalm is not about David at all; it is all about God. The Lord is cited 17 times (including pronouns) in 14 verses. The contrast is between the weakness, fear, pleadings and prayers of a faltering human being, and a powerful deity who can extract him from certain destruction. The contrast is between a person who wants more than anything to shed all his troubles and a God who offers him the safety of the divine presence. The contrast is between one person’s dark night of the soul and the One who is his “light and salvation.”