Finding healing in the book of Psalms

I have been spending time in the book of Psalms.  There is nothing that I am experiencing in my life that someone else hasn't already endured.  As read in Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun.  I find comfort in the fact that God gives us answers in His book!  Other real people who lived in real places experienced real problems...and God saw fit to record them for my benefit!  David wasn't perfect...but God called him a man after His own heart. 

Today...I needed to read for awhile to let the Lord calm my heart and thinking.

Psalm 36:5-7

Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.  Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep:  O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.  How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

I spent the afternoon reading a book by Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings.  I highly recommend it!  And after reading in Psalms this morning, I can see the difference in the hearts of these three men...Saul, David, and Absalom. 

"What do you do when someone throws a spear at you?"

I know there is the capability in my heart to have a heart like Saul.  I am asking the Lord to protect me from the heart of a "mad man".  I am asking the Lord to keep my heart pure and help me say as David said, "I will not hinder God.  No obstacle, no activity on my part lies between me and God's will.  Nothing will prevent Him from accomplishing His will.  God shall be God!"

The answer to the question...

"David did not throw Saul's spears back at him.  He did not make any of his own spears to throw at Saul.  All he did was dodge the spears.  David never got hit.  Gradually, he learned a very well kept secret.  He discovered three things that prevented him from ever being hit.  One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing.  Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers.  And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.  In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart."