Psalm 7

There are several things I've always said I want to know more about when I get to Heaven.  First, I want to see a video of the scene in the temple on the day Jesus was crucified.  I want to see what ensued when the veil was torn from top to bottom.   

Second, I want to hear Jesus words to the 2 disciples on the road to Emmaus.   What an awesome sermon that must have been!  

Third,  I want to know who Cush is and what he said to or about David.  

All we know of the reason for Psalm 7 is in the heading, "A meditation of David which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite."        Nowhere else is this mentioned.  But whatever Cush said, it rattled David.  Really shook him up.  

Right off the bat, David speaks his sure trust in the refuge he has with God.  No whining, no ranting and raving. No 'why me?!'.  

David seems very weary in this Psalm.  Tired of running, of being pursued, of being slandered.   So he turns to his God.  

He is sure of his innocence, yet is willing to be laid bare by the One who knows our thoughts before we think them.  He is willing to take the punishment for his wrong, if indeed wrong is found in him regarding the matter.  He ASKS to be laid bare.  

(I personally struggle with praying that way......very scary! for I know me well enough to know the depth of my sin, but God knows me better than I know myself!)  

He cried for judgement against his foes, confident in his righteous Judge.  

Verse 11 "God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day."   Another version read a little differently, and the picture that came to my mind was somewhat the antithesis to this.  
I know as a parent, at times I needed to and should have reacted to some sin in my children, but was just too tired, or too overwhelmed, or just lazy. So I ignored it.  Eventually, I would blow up at them about it.     But God is not so.  He is angered by sin to the same degree, all the time,  EVERY DAY.  

And He is fair.  Very fair.  Fair beyond anything that you or I can conceive of as being fair.  All sin, All the time, makes Him angry, and he will judge all of it with equity.  

Oh, but He is patient!  And longsuffering!  He gives ample time and instruction to turn back from sin, to confess and repent, and live according to His truth.

But.....you can mark His words.....he will judge!  

Those who continue in sin do so to their own demise.  God will turn their mischief on their own heads, and eventually, they will come before Him and either STAND, or be blown away like the chaff.  (remember Psalm 1?)

And after speaking all these things  ('meditating' as the heading says it...)    David is compelled to offer praise to the righteous God who is his shield and deliverer.  (and Who could lay bare the intents of his own heart also!)