Trust God - Psalm 56:3-4

David was not bragging, he does not claim never to be afraid.

• He saw the imminence of his peril, or danger from the Philistines, and was afraid.
• He feared, but that fear did not fill the whole area of his mind, for he adds, "I will trust in thee."

It is possible, then, for fear and faith to occupy the mind at the same moment. 

• We are strange beings, and our experience in the divine life is stranger still. We are often in a twilight, where light and darkness are both present, and it is hard to tell which dominates. 

If I fear man I have only to trust God, and I have the best antidote. 

• To trust when there is no cause for fear, is but the name of faith, but to be reliant upon God when occasions for alarm are abundant and pressing, is the conquering faith of God's children.

Though the verse is in the form of a resolve, it became a fact in David's life, let us make it so in ours. 

• Whether the fear arises from without or within, from past, present, or future, from temporals, or spirituals, from men or demons, let us maintain faith, and we shall soon recover courage.

"In God I will praise his word." 

• Faith brings forth praise. 
• He who can trust will soon sing praise. 
• God's promise, when fulfilled, is a great subject for praise.

It is in or through God that we are able to praise. 

• We praise as well as pray in the Spirit. 
• Or we may read it - in celebrating the Lord one of the main points for thanksgiving is his revealed will in the Scriptures, and the fidelity with which he keeps his word of promise. 

"In God I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do to me." 

• Faith exercised, fear is banished, and holy triumph ensues, so that the soul asks, "What can flesh do to me?" 
• What indeed? He can do me no real injury; all his ill will, spitefulness, or hatred shall be overruled for my good. 

Man is flesh, flesh is grass - Lord, in thy name I defy its utmost wrath. 

adapted from The Treasury of David by Charles H. Spurgeon