David’s lifelong love for God drew him to seek Him. He was drawn toward Him with an embracing love. As revealed in God’s Word, David is a model of what pleases the Lord.
Start with me at the beginning of Psalm 18, where we see David’s last recorded words. David’s relationship with the Lord was not theoretical; it was real, and it was HIS, and he knew it and said it—to the end!
DAVID WAS A BOND SLAVE OF GOD
In the Psalm we read this morning, David becomes the third and final person in the Old Testament to be described as “the servant of the Lord”. We know This powerful word “bondservant” from the New Testament. So David’s life has many examples for us.
Again, note the first verse in Hebrew, the little paragraph before the first verse.
Psalm 18:1-2 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:
Only Moses and Joshua are given this familiar title from the New Testament among the verses of God’s Word.
In Deuteronomy, we are introduced to Moses as ‘the servant of the Lord’ (17x):
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