"Praising God for Deliverance"

Psalms 34: Introduction: "A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed." Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don't! And then, there are those times when you just get nutty! Now if you were following what I said at the beginning of Psalms 33, as to who it might have been that inserted that Psalm between 32 and 34, whether or not he wrote it, it is believed that Ezra arranged the Psalms in the order that they are today; and seeing that his name means 'help', isn't more than a coincidence that between forgiveness and deliverance we need assurance. Again, this might just be me, reading way too much into something that really does not exist; but I just find it very odd how that actually is the case; and if you don't know what the heck it is that I am talking about, then stick around, because I believe God might have deliverance waiting for someone; maybe it will be me, because there is always something I need to be delivered from! Anyhow; Psalms 32 was about "Confession and Forgiveness", which is where we begin when it comes to being made right before God; and Psalms 33 was about "Praising God", for He is our righteousness, and as in most cases, the final verse of the Psalm is the punchline if you will; making "Let Thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in Thee" be the power of the praise, as in, How Much Do You Want His Mercy? or, for those of us that are a little more thickheaded or hardhearted, which ever the case may be, How Much Do You Hope In God? It really is all about "Blessed Assurance"; and when it comes to deliverance from almost anything, sometimes you really just need to let go of yourself and let God take over! That might get a little scary, because you really don't know what the outcome might be; but if you have assurance in God, nothing else really matters. The story of the introduction is found in 1 Samuel 21:10-15, and was when David fled into Gath when he was running away from Saul; Gath being the region from which Goliath was from, in the land of the Philistines. After the servants of Achish (or Abimelech which means father king), knew who David was, and rehearsed the song about him, saying, "Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands", David feared for his life, and began to act as if he was insane; "scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard". (1 Samuel 21:13) Not exactly a well thought out plan, but one that seemed to work; because the king drove David away from him for fear that his craziness might disrupt his house, and David was able to depart from a threatening situation, with his life. This is what assurance in God can do to you, or for you, depending what you situation might be: You let yourself go, and let God deliver you..."Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." (Isaiah 55:6 & 7)