Psalm 31 with Shannon Scott

Um, but this particular morning in the middle of this season that just felt like it was coming after me, um, Psalm 31, I was in Psalm 31 and in verse four, and this line jumped off the page at me and it said, keep me free.

And the full verse is keep me free from the trap that is set for me for you are my refuge.

Um, And I just stopped.

Now, I did not open my Bible that morning because I was so holy and devoted.

I want to be so clear.

But I was more hobbled and depleted.

I don't know if you've ever felt that way.

And

there was nowhere else to go but God's word.

And so sometimes desperation can be disguised as devotion, and I'm not about that.

That's

good.

That's what I came upon.

And other translations, I think particularly the CSB says like, you will free me from the net that is secretly spread for me, for you are my refuge.

And so same meaning of those, but different word pictures, nets and traps.

And while Psalm 31 doesn't name the actual occasion that David was in, like a lot of other Psalms do, the tone of that Psalm probably means that it was set in that same season where he's fleeing from Saul and running for his life and hiding in caves.

Right.

That's what most scholars agree is probably going on there.

But that Hebrew word for trap or snare carries that air of like a hunter setting a trap.

So the trap is set on purpose.

And it's often hidden and there's like a malicious plot to it.

The point of the trap is to catch something in the trap.

And so there is no trap of the enemy of our souls that is not a big deal because he does not operate toward us with anything but malicious intent, if that makes sense.

And so I

was