Psalmist’s battles and God’s victory: God trains my hands for battle

Topical meditation:

 Psalmist’s battles and God’s victory

Day 2

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. Psalm 18:34

For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. Psalm 18:39

Again, I see that the Psalmist does not attribute his military skills to himself. He knows that it is the Lord who trains his hands for battle. David thanks the Lord for courage, strength, skills, and weapons. The verb is written in the present tense, meaning that God is still training his hands for war. David did not get these skills at once, but gradually.

Defeat in spiritual warfare is inevitable when a person thinks he can win on his own. And no one lives a perfectly victorious life overnight.

God trains our hands for war, and one victory leads to another, with each victory we grow stronger. He who knows that the Lord is training his hands for war, will not be self-confident, but will trust in the Lord, will not be afraid, but will be brave, will not tolerate defeat, but will expect victory, will put on the armor of God, will take the sword of the Spirit, he will recognze the plans of the enemy lest he fall into the snare of the devil, he will not boast after the victory, but will glorify God.

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