Psalms 54:3 (KJV)
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
We are told that the occasion of this Psalm is “when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?”
Ziph was a city not only in Israel, but of David’s own tribe. Yet they twice turned David in to King Saul, and David calls them strangers.
Gill says:
-They “used him as barbarously as the very Heathens would have done, or worse”
-“though notwithstanding they were of Israel, might not be Israelites indeed”
-They were “but strangers to an inward experience of divine and spiritual things”
He goes on to say, “men may be professors of religion, and yet be strangers to God in Christ, to Christ himself, and the way of salvation by him, and communion with him; to the Spirit of God, and the operations of his grace on the heart.”
I think I have met some who would claim to be brethren, even claim to be of the same faith as I, and yet are still “strangers” in their relationship because of their lack of graciousness. You rub shoulders with some folks, but never make a good connection. They know you, acknowledge you and would, in an instant, turn, act and speak against you.
They are strangers, no matter how well you know them.
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Familiar Faces, Strange Hearts: Close Yet Disconnected
Have you known the hurt of someone who claims to be a brother yet turns against you? David knew that pain. Familiarity and a profession of shared faith do not always bring graciousness or a true connection.
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