In his forty days fasting in the desert Jesus must have had
a tough time. He was deliberately led there by the Holy Spirit to be tested.
Our little modern self-denials in Lent hardly compare. The Psalmist is here
looking back over a long life. He has had faith in God since his youth (v5).
This would fit King David (to whom the Psalm is attributed in the early Greek
translation called the Septuagint) with his childhood experience as a shepherd
boy of seeing off the bear and the lion coming after his father’s sheep with a
special courage given by God. (1 Samuel 17:34-37). But later on as he grew up
David experienced the treachery both of Israel’s traditional enemy the
Philistines and of fellow Israelites – King Saul when the bad moods came over
him, and later the rebellion of his own son Absalom. Through it all God had
been his rock of refuge and he can still say (v14) that he will always have
hope and praise God more and more.
En regardant en arrière dans la vieillesse le psalmiste voit que c’est dans les moments difficiles que notre foi est renforcée
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