Psalm 18:3 -- I will call upon Jehovah

I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies. -- Psalm 18:3,  American Standard Version.

No matter what our circumstances may be in life, we should always remember to call upon Jesus' God, Jehovah (Micah 5:4), in thanks and gratitude for what we have, whether it be little or great abundance. To the consecrated child of God, it is not something that should be put in the back of the mind to do when we have nothing else to do. It is a matter that should be of constant concern at all times, no matter what we are doing. To call upon Jehovah would thus signify a heart unity with Jehovah's purposes as He has revealed them in the Bible.

Only those, however, who are truly consecrated can reach a high level of appreciation of how Jehovah is worthy to be praised. In a way, all of us will, in our sinful flesh, fall short of such appreciation of Jehovah's worthiness. It is only as we walk by the spirit as new creatures in Christ, and not according to the sinful flesh, that such can be fully appreciated.

Nevertheless, for the regenerated child of God, the only way to call upon Jehovah is in the name of His Son, Jesus. There is no other way that God has given for us to come to Him. 

From David's perspective, the final part of our text evidently refers to the past, not the future. He says the above words after all his enemies had been defeated. We need to remember that Biblical Hebrew does not actually have time tenses, but verbs are used in what has been referred to as "aspect". Translators into English -- and other languages that have time tenses -- have to depend on what they think is meant, either from the context or from other sources, to render the verb with some kind of time tense. Thus, some commentators say that when the phrase "so shall I be saved" should have been rendered with some kind of past tense verb, rather than the future tense.

As applied to the consecrated Christian, the main enemies of the new creature are the world, the flesh, and Satan.  ...... more to be added later, God willing, and then AI checked.

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