Our soul encompasses our entire being: our mind (thoughts), our feelings and emotions, our spirit, our inward heart. In Psalm 43 David is transitioning from being a persecuted king finally sitting on the promised throne. For years David, an anointed king, has been on the run for his life. Despite being on the run and living in caves, David was still a king. His status and identity was not dependent on his situation. His status and identity was dependent on what God had spoken. Finally, his enemy is fallen and David ascends to his throne, and the world finally sees who he has been all along – the king. We shouldn’t wait until we ascend to thrones to be who we already are in Christ Jesus. We are children of God, whether we are hiding in caves or persecuted and troubled, we are the righteousness of God. (2 Cor 5.21)
In Psalm 43 David, being king, still wrestled with the internal battle taking place in his mind. At the beginning of the chapter David finds himself doubting that Yahweh fights for him, and he pleads with his God to rescue him from the remaining oppressors of the previous reign. But, in the closing remarks of this writing, David speaks to his own soul and sets his mind straight. As Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthians, “We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,” (2 Cor 10:5).
David confronts his soul and poses the question,
“Why are you cast down, O my soul?
Why are you in turmoil within me?”
He then speaks and encourages himself in what is true…
“Hope in God; … in expectancy of the victory that is already his because of who God is, he says, “for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.”
As the song goes, “I’m no longer a slave to fear… I am a child of God.”
Speak truth and victory to your soul.
Do not be defeated by your fallen thoughts.
Do not allow yourself to live in the chains of sin that Jesus has already broken.
Take hold of the victorious life that we have in Jesus Christ.
“Because I live, you also will live.“ John 14.19b
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