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I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most High. Psalm 7:17

David was in a pickle!  He was trying his level best to be the man that God wanted him to be.  At the same time he was being harassed and chased around the country by a king who was obsessed with jealousy for David and wanted David dead. As if that were not enough, he was being accused by his own country men of trying to kill Saul so that he could seize the throne. In response to all the heightened emotions that were surrounding him, he wrote this Psalm as a lament to God.  God was his refuge and the only person that David could run to in a crisis. No one else could be trusted apart from God and so David ran to him. 

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Perhaps you feel like that.  You cannot trust anyone around you and people are saying slanderous things about you which you know are not true.  Although there is a little part of you, as there was with David, which says maybe there were things you did wrong or could have done better. David looked deep into his heart, asked God to forgive him and finished with this wonderful statement.  He could freely give thanks to God, despite the clamour of everyone around him, because God’s goodness and perfect rightness covered him completely.  He was safe and at peace. So can you be if you ask him.