OLD TOOTHLESS 

Psalm 7

1 A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.
O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid my friendfn with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.
8 The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.
12 If a manfn does not repent, Godfn will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
17 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

Thoughts  - 

David's song to the LORD was about Cush the Benjaminite. Scholars are at a loss of who this person was in relationship to David. Some think he was part of the inner circle of people (family) that King Saul relied on, much like his uncle Abner the commander of the Army. Whoever this person was, he was treating David like an enemy and spreading falsehoods. David's words "like a lion they tear my soul apart." This reminded me of the description Peter gives of the Devil in 1 Peter 1:8. David pleads with the LORD that he has done no wrong. In verse eight he asks the LORD to judge him according to his righteousness. I think in the things concerning Saul that David's actions were above reproach. The problem lies more in what David said in his defense. Look closely at his words and the enemy's eventual plot and plan from that point forward.

- verse four "if I've repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it. "
- Uriah the Hittite would eventually prove to be the person that fit neatly into the Devil's plan,  allowing him to choke David with his own words. Verses 14 to 16 echo the problems that would haunt David after his affair with Bathsheba, Uriah's wife.
- If nothing else this should serve as reminder that this could be one of the schemes the evil one tries to use against us.
What can we do?

  
- don't rest on your own righteousness, but be reminded of Romans 3:10 ESV — as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
Live daily in that truth and rest in Jesus's righteousness applied to you and I on the cross. 
Also remember -
James 5:12 ESV — But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

Don't let the Devil use your words against you Jesus has made the Devil a toothless lion, but that's still no reason to give him anything to chew on and spit back at you..

My prayer is that your prayer life be private between you and GOD, not written for public consumption or heard in song. That we would remember daily where our righteousness is found. "Be wise as serpents and as harmless as doves." (Matt 10:16)