as I read the psalms... david often asks God to rescue him from his enemies.. he spends alot of time talking about his enemies and how he needs God to rescue him.. he knows God will rescue him.. but he needs it.. I feel like that is odd for a few different reasons..

first of all.. david is a warrior.. a warrior KING.. a great and mighty warrior.. saul killed his thousands but david killed his ten thousands.. and.. even when things were bad.. david was not alone.. he had a group of soldiers that were true to him and remained with him.. and even if the fight was 200 against 2,000... he was not in the fight alone.. I can't imagine that a general focuses alot on the enemy other than their weaknesses and how he would bring them down...

secondly... david is close to God.. he has a STRONG relationship with God... so why is his focus on the problem rather than on the One who will rescue him?.. I am not downplaying the role of the enemies in david's life.. I know that the king (saul) wanted to kill him.. his own son (absalom) tried to kill him and overthrown his throne... another son rapes his daughter... I know he had a rough time.. I know that he surely did have many many enemies... I am just thinking that someone in his life.. as he was putting out all these psalms.. needed to tell him that God is Lord over all.. and no one could hurt him because of that.. that God had made promises for his future.. and God would be true to those promises.. and put the focus on God and not on the problem...

we all have enemies in our lives.. it may not be people coming against us.. it may be illness.. addiction.. depression.. laziness.. anger.. jealousy.. we all have something that we battle against on a daily basis.. our focus needs to be on God and not on the battle... we may not be warriors in the literal sense.. but we certainly are warriors in the spiritual sense.. the enemy is not going to stop trying to destroy us.. that is his job.. and he is ON it! but we do not have to succumb to defeat.. because God is on our side.. if we keep striving to do the righteous thing.. keep working toward God's will and His way.. we will overcome the battle.. then there will be another one and we will have to start all over again... God is strengthening us.. building us up as His army..

we will come out victorious..