Gimme Shelter
If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to the 57th Psalm. If you've peeked ahead and looked at the Psalm, you’ll notice that it bears a relation to the Psalm that we studied the last time together, the 56th Psalm. Both of these Psalms come from that time in David's life in which he was fleeing from Saul. The last time we were together in Psalm 56, we saw David headed straight for Gath, the city of Goliath. So bad were things in his home country, so isolated was he from all support that the one who was the anointed king of Israel had to find shelter in the city of the champion of the enemy of his people. That's how bad things were. And David cries out to God in Psalm 56 and does it in this setting, in Gath, in which God in His mercy gave deliverance when…