This is a very personal Psalm. It’s as if David is letting us see behind the door of his life. We’re getting to know him in a way that ordinarily we wouldn’t. The wonderful thing about the Psalms of David is that many of them are so intimately revealing

“Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?” II Samuel 7: 18 Whenever I read this verse spoken by David in prayer to God, it makes me think of the wonderful song: “Who Am I?” So, I thought I’d share it with you.

“And Samuel Died” — I Samuel 25:1 So, I’m merrily reading along in 1st Samuel and the first three words at the beginning of the new chapter are: “And Samuel died.” That’s it? That’s all we get?? Three little words that just pop up in the narrative??? I want more information … please.

John G. Patton, Missionary To The New Hebrides. I’m going to quote from what I read the other day in this book.

“My dear young wife, Mary Ann Robson, — daughter of Peter Robson, Esquire, a well-known and highly esteemed gentleman, at Coldstream on the Borders, — and I were landed on Tanna on the 5th November, 1858, in excellent health and full of all tender and holy hopes.

This is a tremendous verse. There could be any number of settings that this Psalm could fit into. A popular thought is that it was sung on a pilgrim journey to Jerusalem for a festival. That might very well be. But, let’s just think about it in the framework of someone on a hike going from point A to point B.