In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
He will not be afraid of what men can do.
He did not say he believed men could do nothing.
Men did persecute, oppress, injure, and hurt King David. In the face of such opposition, he did not pray for the strength to defeat them. He prayed instead for the mercy of God.
During the heaviest oppressions of the dark ages, Christians knew they could not expect the enemies of their faith to leave them alone. They choose never to fight them. There was never a time when our Baptist forefathers took up arms against their oppressors. They were captured, imprisoned, tortured, and killed believers of all ages and both genders. Never did they resist. They prayed not for the death of those who fought against them but for God’s mercy,[1] strength,[2] and the conversion[3] of those who persecuted them.
We ought to be more fearful of an ungodly response to men rather than what those men can do to us.
[1] Psalms 56:1 (KJV)
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
[2] Psalms 56:3 (KJV)
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
[3] Psalms 56:7 (KJV)
Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
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