David’s impulse is to flee the trouble and pain and go elsewhere . . . anywhere (verses 6–8). In his case this would mean abdicating as king and letting someone else assume the stresses of leadership. In other cases it might mean giving in to temptation—by taking the way of least resistance, by lying, by undermining someone else to save yourself. It might entail falling into some addiction that numbs your pain. But there is no shelter apart from God. We must continue to trust in him, because all other “shelters” will prove to be places of greater danger. There is no other place to go. He has
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