As we stop taking our kids to sports, stop going to the gym, stop socializing in restaurants, and as restrictions continue to confine us to life under our own roof, it may not be too long until you feel like David, living in a cave, and on the run from Saul.
If you do think you feel like David, it may also be a good idea to ask yourself about the mindset of David while he was bunkered down. Thankfully, this is not left to our imagination because David wrote it out for us in Psalm 57 – “A Miktam of David When he Fled from Saul in a Cave.” Though our current situation is very different from David’s, there is much we can learn from his response.
David’s refuge is not in his cave.
The title of David’s Psalm gives us the context of where David has to reside. It helps us to know that he was there because of a threat to his life, but it does not mean that the cave was David’s security in his life. David does not say, “In the cave I take refuge.”
