Some Days Psalm 129

Some Days Psa 129 (NLT)  From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me . . . from my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me . . .Lord knows I have days like this, days when I am overwhelmed, when the accumulation of days becomes apparent, days when what has been behind comes to the front.

My enemies are not so much the kind King David may have been referring too, overt men who seek my life and misfortune.

While there are real people at times who seem my enemy they are really relational navigations that have gone sour or been ill attended. Even then they seldom hold a sword and spear. My enemies are more enemies of the mind, enemies of heart and spirit.

There are things I experienced, things I seem to have been enculturated by, things I came to believe about me, my life and the world around me that for the most part I cannot shake. They are things like fear, anxiety, self perception, there are of course good thing on the flip side, but we are talking now about enemies, things the real enemy of life will exploit to attack us over and over.

Some days these enemies seem far off, if not vanquished as though a victorious battle had been won on some distant hill. But when the days pile up as they sometimes do with their loads and challenges they rise again to plague, to persecute. David is not immediately explicit as he writes but the fact he writes aware of God’s presence and provision cheats on the answer to his survivability. I look to the same source with ever germinating hope and perspective. I love David’s triumphal statement; "But they have never been able to finish me off. (3) My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.

I come like David through some days only triumphant that I am still here, wounded for sure but not done. Next David acknowledges his strength, he reveals his hope and the one whose hands our days are in. (4) But the LORD is good; he has cut the cords used by the ungodly to bind me.

You are good Lord. Through all the days I can say and will continue to say, You are good. You set me free.