God Saves the Righteous

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God Saves the Righteous

Date: Feb. 12, 2026

Passage

Psalm 7:1-17 (ESV)

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

1   O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;
    save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2   lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
    rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
3   O LORD my God, if I have done this,
    if there is wrong in my hands,
4   if I have repaid my friend with evil
    or plundered my enemy without cause,
5   let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
    and let him trample my life to the ground
    and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6   Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
    lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
    awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7   Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
    over it return on high.
8   The LORD judges the peoples;
    judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.
9   Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    and may you establish the righteous—
  you who test the minds and hearts,
    O righteous God!
10   My shield is with God,
    who saves the upright in heart.
11   God is a righteous judge,
    and a God who feels indignation every day.
12   If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
    he has bent and readied his bow;
13   he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.
14   Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
    and is pregnant with mischief
    and gives birth to lies.
15   He makes a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole that he has made.
16   His mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own skull his violence descends.
17   I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
    and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

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Daily Bread

Key Verse: 7:10

My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.

David begins his psalm by crying out to God in prayer against his enemy (Cush the Benjamite) who has slandered him and accused him of wrongdoing. David is confident that he has done no wrong; he even declares that if he has sinned, then let his enemy triumph over him.

But as he continues to pray, he meditates on God’s justice. God alone is truly righteous. God is angry at sin every day. God sharpens his arrow and bends his bow for judgment, but he is waiting for the penitent one to turn back to him. If not, God allows the sinner to fall into his own trap. When David meditates on God who alone is righteous and just, he ends his psalm with praise and thanksgiving.

God is a just God and he must punish our sins. In his infinite mercy, God sent his own Son Jesus to die in our places and to save us from our sins and judgment. We should praise and thank Jesus for his immeasurable grace and give all our struggles with our enemies to God by faith.

Prayer: Father, thank you and praise you for your righteousness and for saving me. Help me to leave my struggles with my enemies in your hands.

One Word: Thank God for his righteousness

Fullness and Freedom in Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Key Verse: 2:10a

and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

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