“But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high” (Psalm 3:3). On our journey of faith, we will have to obey Christ and make decisions that are impossible to make in our own strength. In these moments, we must look to God as our source of strength. King David wrote Psalm 3 in a time of deep trouble: He was enduring a coup, in hiding from his son Absalom. He was struggling with his desperate situation that night—emotionally as a father crossed by his son, spiritually as he tried to understand the reason for his predicament, socially as his people had deserted him, and psychologically as close friends had betrayed him. “Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! Many are saying of me, ‘God will not deliver him,'” David cried out. “But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head […]