“I am surrounded by lions, I am lying down among people breathing fire, men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongues shard-edged swords.”
David wrote this Psalm as he reflected back on the time he was in the cave when Saul, the king of Israel, was hunting him down. Saul stopped and entered the very cave David was in and David's men convinced him that God had worked to deliver Saul into his hand.
So David crawled up and immediately regretted that he had been talked into killing Saul and, instead, cut off the corner of Saul's robe. As Saul left the cave and went back down the mountain David appeared and called out to Saul, trying to prove to him that David would not harm God's anointed before God's timing.
As we are in this time, what are you being talked into that is not what God has told you, but is rather what sounds good and reasonable to those giving you advice? It is for good reason the scripture says, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling!", because you are responsible for the actions you take and the things you say. Remember, Jesus told us in Matthew 5:22 that if we call someone a (good for nothing) we are in danger of the fires of Hell.
Salvation is a great responsibility, not because it is so easily lost, but because it is so easily obtained, and therefore can be easily thought to be easily disregarded. Our salvation is freely given, but has been obtained at a great price; and Father God will not let His Son be diminished by our lack of connection with the Father and the Son.
No matter how dire the circumstances look, God is only interested in WHERE you look, up or out.
Pastor Brent