"...Oh So Worthy"

"I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies." (Psalms 18:3) Isn't wonderful to have such a loving God who not only will care for all of our needs, but will also protect us from every sort of danger. (That was not a question.) Going back to the first verse, and then starting over, I began to look at this from a fresh perspective. As for David's reason to start his newer version of this song with, "I will love Thee, O LORD, my strength", it is very probable that David realized the reason why God was his strength, and that it truly was because of love. Our first and greatest command from God is to love Him with all of our heart, mind, soul and strength; this is the first command with promise! The promise being that if we do love the LORD our God with all that is within us, then He will protect us in every area of our life. It's not that God will not care for us anyway, because I can tell you right here and now, that before I loved Him, He was definitely looking out for me! No; this is rather an acknowledgement of God's love for us, in that we love Him back; giving Him the acknowledgement of our praise and worship for how much He loves and cares for us. Therefore; all those reasons listed in verse two, are not just declarations of who God is, but they are praises of what God has done; more than that, they are praises of God's love, and how we can never out love Him! If you really think about what God wants from us in the manner of our love for Him, He wants us to love Him in such a way that His love is the most important thing in our lives! In doing this, we are walking automatically in a spirit of trusting God; not based upon what God will or will not do for us, but based upon love! Therefore; putting these three verses together, we see that David acknowledges how that it is really all about love; God's love for him being the reason that David can call upon Him in the first place; His mighty works of deliverance and strength being the reason that He is so worthy to be praised; and, because David is so in love with Him, "so shall I be saved from mine enemies"...