Psalm 54

David was fleeing from Saul and landed in the wilderness of Ziph. The Ziphites belonged to the same tribe as David but the Ziphites negotiated with Saul and betrayed David. Imagine Jesus Christ's own encounter with the betrayal of His close disciple Judas! Reading Psalm 54 is never the same again when we read it with Christ as the centrepiece of the event unfolded before us.

As we face similar situations of betrayal and persecution, or situations where we are being wrongly accused by others, may we remember Psalm 54:7: "For he (God) has delivered me from all my troubles, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes".