You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.
Psalm 32:7
I know I have written this in a previous post, but I am so thankful for growing up in a church and home that taught me praise songs! I was reading through our reading of Psalm 32 and once I got to verse 7 this melody started playing in my head!
You are my hiding place. You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance whenever I am afraid. I will trust in You.
I will trust in You. Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord.
You are my hiding place. You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance whenever I am afraid. I will trust in You.
Iwill trust in You. Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord. I will trust in You.
Are you singing it now???
Psalm 32:7 identifies God as our hiding place: ”For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.” The Hebrew word seter, translated here as “hiding place,” can refer literally to a secret location in which to conceal oneself. In 1 Samuel 19, for example, when King Saul saught to kill David, Jonathan, Saul’s son and David’s friend, warned him, saying, “You must find a hiding place (seter) out in the fields”(19:2)
In Psalm 32:7, God is a hiding place in that he protects us from trouble. He surrounds us with “songs of victory” or “songs of deliverance”. Because of this, when we trust in the Lord, we can be assured that our lives are safe in his hands.
As we know, this does not mean that we will not experience troubles. I, in fact, have had my fair share recently. But it does mean that when we do face the hard times we can have confidence that God is on our side. No matter what happens in this life, no matter how it seems that God has abandoned us, he is there nonetheless.
I believe that the more we turn to Him, the more we trust Him, the more we live securely. He is the best hiding place of all. When we hide all our troubles in Him, we find joy.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
Psalm 32:11