Psalm 3 offers us the first prayer by King David. It is a prayer of desperation—the kind of prayer that we tend to avoid. But in putting this Psalm at the beginning of the Psalter, we learn that our cry of distress is an opportunity to acknowledge our need for God and to find him ready to defend, comfort, and save us.

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