As with so many Psalms, David is calling on the Lord for help. Although the Psalm is not explicitly ascribed to David, he is the most likely author of this Psalm, and Psalm 70 may have served as an introduction to the 71. David is relying on God's righteousness and His strength and power. God is his refuge to which he can always go. No matter what we are facing, we can always run to God. We need to develop a close relationship with the Lord.
How do we develop such a relationship? By continually trusting, hoping in and obeying the Lord. The Lord had been David's hope since his youth. He had continually relied upon God and praised Him. We cannot gain this depth of relationship by any quick fix, but only through an ongoing relationship with God.
Now David was old, he was facing circumstances that he had not faced before. Many were accusing him and looking for his downfall. As life goes on we encounter different circumstances, ones we have not faced before. By continually relying on God we build up a wealth of experience and a depth of relationship, and this enables us to face all things.
David declared what the Lord had done. We need to do likewise.
"Though you have made me see troubles". David knew that ultimately the Lord's decision to let him see trouble, but he did not view this negatively. He knew that in it all the Lord would give Him victory in the end.
So he would continue to praise the Lord, as he had always done, and knew that in the end he would see the victory.
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