Topic: Never Go a Day without God: Psalm 60

Psalm 60:12 says,

“Through God we shall do valiantly,

And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.”

That’s quite a verse for the end of a chapter that’s very beginning says,

“1 O God, You have rejected us. You have broken us;

You have been angry; O, restore us.

2 You have made the land quake, You have split it open;

Heal its breaches, for it totters.

3 You have made Your people experience hardship;

You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.”

The Psalmist acknowledges that apart from God, we are hopeless. That if God is against us, we have no hope. But God is for us, so that is how the Psalmist ends the psalm. With God on our side, with God working with us, for us, we shall do valiantly. It is he who will tread down our foes. Without God’s mercy, grace, and kindness, we are doomed to fail.

From beginning to end, Psalm 60 clarifies that without God, you and I are hopeless. Without God and His mercy and His grace and His help, we are doomed to fail. Yet with God—in a Romans 8 kind of way—if God is for us, who can stand against us?

Going back to Psalm 56, as long as God is with us, we have nothing to fear. What can flesh do to us when we are walking with trust in God? Think about how this relates to your life today.

The middle part of the Psalm describes the war between nations and the hopelessness of battle without God. Every single day of our lives we are engaged in a spiritual battle. You and I are hopeless in that battle every day apart from God. Apart from His presence, His power, His protection, His leading, His guiding, His mercy and His grace, we are hopeless.

Be thankful for verse 12, “Through God…”

See you Sunday,

Dr. Scott Kallem