Psalm 60:11–12: “Give us help from trouble, / For the help of man is useless. / Through God we will do valiantly, / For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.”

March 6th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional

In the midst of David’s battle, he was clearly focusing on God alone for comfort, relief, and salvation. His psalm instructs us to do the same when we find ourselves in similar difficulties. We need to be continually reminded to resist the temptation toward a dependency on man instead of God. David could say that all he had seen had taught him to trust the Creator for all he had not seen. He had learned the truth that God alone is reliable and will give victory over and over again.

A wise man of God told me long ago:

Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in your friends and they will die and leave you; trust in money and you may have it taken from you; trust in reputation and some slanderous tongue may blast it; but trust in God, and you will never be confounded in time or eternity.

“LORD, we place our trust anew in You alone, because You alone have the words of eternal life.”

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Psalms 60 KJV

¹ O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.  

² Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

³ Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

⁴ Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

⁵ That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.

⁶ God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

⁷ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

⁸ Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me. 

⁹ Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? 

¹⁰ Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou , O God, whichdidst not go out with our armies?

¹¹ Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. 

¹² Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.