May 23

<p>Psalms 55-61 We are in the Wisdom Stream and using the New International Version this week. <span style= "font-size: 1rem;">7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams</span> <span style= "font-size: 1rem;">Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</span></p> <blockquote> <div dir="ltr">Thank you Lord for being with us, for hearing us, for stepping in for us and defending us even and especially when things are at their worst. You truly are our Savior.  Amen</div> </blockquote> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div><strong>Today's run of Psalms is like trouncing through a jungle, escaping the lion to encounter the huge snake, then running into an angry gorilla, and then the demented explorer who sic's the blood-thirsty warriors on you so you run to a "Tarzan vine" that allows you to swing over and narrowly escape across the pirhana-infested river so you can have a moments rest with ... the Lord!  "whew"  Somehow the Lord brought David through harrowing times like this for years on end.</strong></div> <div>55 - David is pleading for a reply and some relief. He is in anguish, and distraught with terror and worse. Things are bad. Oh, would he love to fly away. David longs to flee back to the desert - probably because it reminds him of peaceful sheep tending during his youth. His prayer for the destruction of his enemies is warranted. And what is compounding matters is that the enemy in this case was once a close companion and believer along with David as they worshiped together - that was then. Now he's turned on David.  Honestly it sounds like Ahithophel the wretch whom we [red] read about last week. This cut David deep. II Samuel 15 is the narrative that triggered this particular prayer from David.  Amazing that David ends this Psalm, "cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain ... as for me, I trust in you."</div> <div>56 - This Psalm corresponds with the story from I Sam. 21 when David was being "held" in Gath.  He is being resourceful, thinking quickly on his feet so to speak. And it is of note that his