Save us from our enemies!

When the Psalmist cries out to God to rescue him from his enemies, somehow we fail to see that it has great relevance for us in the New Testament. We miss the teaching that the Psalms is bringing to us. Our enemies are no longer physical but spiritual. We need to define clearly who or what they are. They are not only those who tempt us and cause us to fall into sin. But we also have spiritual enemies that try to prevent us from seeking God or depending on Him. These are the more dangerous ones. Even our physical enemies are of two types. One group is those who frontally attack us. But the others are those who act like friends but try to discredit us and destroy our reputation in ways which we do not even see. We need to pay attention to the second type. We need to know why we are not eager to run to Him. We need to find out why our thoughts are so far away from Him. We need to search as to why His presence is not dear to us. There are enemies out there that we scarcely understand. O God, give us eye salve that we might see. Give us a discerning spirit or else we would surely perish!