Wed Oct 8

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words enemies and salvation.

Reading

Psalm 18:1-3, 31-50—Blessed Be the Lord Who Trains My Hands for War

Optional Reading

1 Tim 1:18-20

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

We love the Lord who prepares us for battle.
Any strength or victory we have is from God.
We must fight against the world, our flesh, and the devil.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

How does God equip David in this Psalm?
How does that describe Jesus?
How does that describe us?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors. Today’s notes are from a commentary on the Psalms by James Johnston)

David, in v. 32 begins with God’s equipping. … When a soldier goes off to boot camp, the Army begins to train him for combat, issues him equipment, and prepares him to serve in the military. Verses 33–36 describe God’s boot camp for David. God gave David speed and agility, making his “feet like the feet of a deer” (v. 33). God trained him in the use of weapons. If “a bow of bronze” (v. 34) refers to a physical bow that David used, it may have been a wooden bow with bronze decoration or a bow with bronze-tipped arrows. But this is probably a poetic way to describe the enormous strength God gave him for combat—it was as if he could bend solid bronze.7 God also provided him with armor—salvation like a “shield” (v. 35). And like the Army Corps of Engineers, God cleared a road for his feet.

David’s experience of God’s equipment for battle is a wonderful description of our Lord Jesus too. Jesus came as a warrior to fight spiritual battles against Satan and this fallen world. Demons could not stand before him; his enemies could not refute his wisdom; he completed his conquest by his obedience to death, even death on a cross.

If you are a believer, you have spiritual weapons and equipment through Jesus Christ for the battle before you. … God equips us for battle through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 18e, 134a

Prayer

Thank God that he prepares you for spiritual warfare.
Pray for change in you from last Lord’s Day’s sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.