Insecurity
The third thing that we learn from David here is that a person must restructure their thinking. In verse 4 David says, “I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.” It was the old thinking that lead to his insecurity, but in verse 5, David expresses a new way of thinking by saying, “I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.” You see David’s real refuge was in the LORD. Throughout the Psalms, we see this expressed as David calls God his rock, his deliverer, his strong tower, his fortress, his shield, his buckler, his safety and his refuge. All of these are expressions of security that come from a proper understanding of who God is. You never needed those things to provide you security; you needed a right understanding of who God is to you as His child.
God wants you to run to Him when you feel insecure instead of to your cave of compulsive behavior. He wants you to find your security in your relationship with Him instead of the prison of your addiction. The compulsions are stronger than you, but He is stronger than them. the prison is stronger than you, but He is the one who sets prisoners free. There are countless verses that speak to God being our source of security, as a matter of fact I have included many of them at the end of this article for you to read through. Read them, memorize them and claim them because they were not just for David, God recorded them for you to restructure your thinking about who He is and to help you to be able to hold onto Him in times when insecurity seems to overwhelm you.
My prayer for you is to learn what David knew about the security that is available in God. He said it well in Psalm 61:1: To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. “Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.” Only when you learn this will you have freedom from the insecurity that your compulsions are rooted in.
