God is my help

“Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.” Psalm 54:4
The subscript (introductory text) to Psalm 54 explains to us that this psalm was written when the Ziphites were helping Saul to track David down, in 1 Sam. 26:1. David was on the run from Saul, with a few hundred men who had likewise fallen out of favour. They were not all righteous, like David; they did not all have the right motives in joining him. They would have been seen as a band of renegades, rebelling against the king. Saul was pursuing David incessantly, driven by an evil spirit, following him from city to city and through the wilderness areas. David thought he had found safety in the desert of Ziph, but then he was betrayed by the people he was hiding among. He could not stay there but had to go on the run again. No doubt he was tired – physically and emotionally. But instead of giving up, David reminded himself that although the whole world seemed to be against him, God was still on his side, helping him and sustaining him.
We all need to learn to depend completely on the Lord, however it’s only in these hard times that we are truly able to understand what that means. God uses these hard times to teach us to rely on Him, and when we come out the other side, we are able to see how much stronger our faith has become. So next time you feel like everything and everyone has turned against you, remind yourself, like David, that God is your help and the One who sustains you.