困境會使人極度沮喪，也會使人深具信心。當年大衛在水深火熱的煎熬中向上帝哭喊，既因遭朋友出賣（詩55），又遇敵人不捨的追緝（詩56，57），更令他痛心疾首的是敵人惡毒的中傷（詩58），雖然如此，這時候他仍然堅信上帝的大能會在適當的時間，以合宜的方法為他申冤（詩59）！

        氣象預告有暴風雨來襲的時候，船隻需有一個堅固的錨，建築物要有穩固的地基，樹木則有深固的根；它們就能倚靠那堅實，不能動搖的錨，地基及樹根，在暴風雨中倖存。
        大衛在風雨中的錨，是對上帝始終如一的信靠！今天你讀每一首詩篇都描述一種不安、混亂的影響橫掃過大衛的生命，大衛自述這種肆虐猶如狂風暴雨（55：8），又似獅子和猛獸（57：4），也像毒蛇（58：4，5），更如號叫的狗（59：6）。儘管惡勢力環繞著他，但大衛仍定睛在使他有信心的上帝身上（55：22；56：10，11；57：11；58：11；59：9），自從他的錨固定在永不動搖的磐石上，大衛就因「祂的力量」（59：9）也永不動搖了！
        在你的生命中是否有暴風雨來襲？你是否因為信仰就能面對強敵？讓大衛的信心成為你的信心吧！試用你自己的話，以二到三個句子說明你對永不改變的上帝的信心，然後把你的宣告釘在公佈欄上，或浴室的鏡子上，好讓它在最近幾天裡，都能提醒你無須懼怕生命中的暴風雨，只要根基穩固即可──根基就是在主裡的錨。

        叛徒的自畫像
        雖然詩篇五十五篇十二到十四節中對叛徒有所描繪，但我們對叛徒仍是一無所知，諷刺的是大衛以文字刻劃出自己對赫人烏利亞的奸計，可嘆烏利亞，這個大衛最忠貞的朋友，竟成為大衛陰謀的犧牲品（撒下11章）。

憂慮的起頭就是信心的盡頭，信心的起頭就是憂慮的盡頭。

English

        Great peril can cause great discouragement; it can also disclose great faith in God. Though David cries out in anguish to God when faced with the betrayal of a friend (55), the vicious pursuit of an enemy (56-57), and the hatred of hostile judges (58), at the same time he demonstrates great confidence in God's ability to vindicate him at the proper time and in the proper way (59).

        When the forecast calls for storms, ships need a strong anchor; buildings, a sure foundation; trees, a deep root system. In each case, their very survival through the storm depends upon a link to that which cannot be moved.
        David's anchor in stormy circumstances was an unshakable faith in an unchanging God. Each psalm in today's reading describes an unsettling, disrupting influence that swept into his life. David pictures these onslaughts as great tempests (55:8), as lions and ravenous beasts (57:4), as venomous snakes (58:4-5), and as snarling dogs (59:6). But rather than focus on the forces swirling around him, David concentrates on his link of faith to God (55:22; 56:10-11; 57:11; 58:11; 59:9). And since his anchor is fixed to an immovable Rock, David finds that he too is immovable "because of his strength" (59:9).
        Is there a storm on the horizon in your life? Are you facing fierce opposition because of your faith? Using David's expressions of trust as your model, compose in your own words a two- or three-sentence statement of your confidence in the God who never changes. Post your statement where it can remind you in coming days that you needn't fear the storms of life if you have a sure foundation—an anchor in the Lord.

        Self-Portrait of a Traitor
        Though the identity of the traitor described in Psalm 55:12-14 remains unknown to us, ironically David was pain ting a graphic picture of his own treachery toward Uriah the Hittite, one of David's staunchest allies and the victim of his murderous plot (2 Samuel 11).

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.