Bitachon 166 - Song of Bitachon and Praise

you're listening to the 166th edition of the podcast we're continuing in the 40th chapter of and I'd like to actually read to you inside the because in order to understand the next we need to understand the context it starts off it's the first for the second of which we spoke about the last two weeks to the conductor to King David a song King David is writing this song I hoped and I hoped to God and God turned towards me and he heard my call God took me out of the pit he released me from the quick sand how appropriate I'm sitting right now on a rock King David says he put me onto a rock rock is a place of solid footing God gave me a place to stand and he and he helped me with my steps you establish my steps and here's our P now for today's study God put into my mouth a new song to a praise to our God many will see and they will fear and therefore they will trust in they will trust in God so King David is telling us right here that although this is a personal song a personal song of Salvation as we'll see in a moment in the malum but this is something that's not just for me King David recognized who he was he knew that he was the leader of the Jewish people he recognized that his own personal salvation was also something that was salvation for the Jewish people when you see a great leader when you see a king who goes through a difficult time and he comes out the other end that he's saved so it's an incredible it's a strengthening for all of us here at the beginning of this section says King David established and wrote this Pongal wrote this section of Psalms when a miracle had occurred for him and he was running away from his enemies and King David brought sacrifices of thanks to Hashem and he expressed his thanks for God's kindness for the amazing miracle that was done for him was P then King David wanted to make it well known he wanted to to to the to make it known the praise of Hashem and hashem's amazing power and his awesome deeds and the kindness that hem expresses and allows to manifest to those who trust in him and alongside that King David had a prayer for the future and the salvations that would come afterwards okay so King David wanted to advertise and let everybody know about the amazing salvation that Hashem had done and and King David also wanted to pray for future salvations as well now I'd like to read to you what it says here in this Forno he brings here in our sa that we're studying together yes of of trust and salvation so in our PK King David says he wants people to see and fear he wants people to have a sense of awe in front of God and recognize that when we do something wrong there is retribution we need to know that why did King David have to run away from his enemies was it just something that you know sikim have to go through that they have to go through uh being run after and and difficult situations King David said look I admit my mistakes I admit the reason that God brought this upon me the danger the the difficulties is because I did wrong so King David wants us to understand that and he wants us to recognize that when things happen in our lives we need to know that it's because of ourselves because we've done wrong we've distanced ourselves from God so he wants us to remember this and recognize this and be afraid of sinning when we sin the results are negative but it's an amazing message of Hope right we westerners don't want to think about we don't like to think about fear fear of God what are you afraid of we prefer the word awe but the truth is that we need to have fear the beginning of wisdom was fear of God that's the first that's the ABCs fear of sinem sh fear of Heaven Basics ABCs and King David wants us to know that if we fear heaven and we admit and recognize that the mistakes that we made brought upon us the the dark situations that we might find ourselves in so it opens up an amazing opportunity because now you can say look I made a mistake I'm I'm willing to change and not only that but I'm I'm ready to be talking you right because if I recognize that God is fair the things that happen to me I deserve so then I don't have titness on God I I'm ready to come back into a relationship with him I'm ready to trust him and I'm ready to trust him that he's going to save me from the situation he's going to bring me out he's going to bring about a Salvation so King David is pointing out both things it's important to understand I did wrong I was punished I trusted in Hashem Hashem saved me that's the Forno says brings us a different idea from a different angle and he says that I can have that I shouldn't even experience any negative situations right we we find that King David promises us that the one who trusts in hem isg which means that there's prosperity in his life think are good doesn't even experience negative situations so we don't necessarily have to go through this whole process of distancing ourselves from God having difficult situations coming back to God through our Etc says if I fear Hashem from the beginning if I recognize that I don't I don't want to be distant from God so then and and I trust in Hashem then nothing bad has to happen to me says radak understands and says that King David is trying to serve as an example and say that when many people see it's interesting right the beginning of the God put into my mouth a new song to a praise to hasem right when you sing a song and King David was known as the Isel the sweet singer of Israel so when you sing a song especially if you're the king and he was singing even before he was the king he was King singing for King Saul for sha a when you sing when you sing a song that everyone's going to hear you have an opportunity to to advertise something that's what King David is doing so King David threw his song is advertising the fact that God is good and that when you trust in him you can know that he's going to take care of you just like hasm took care of King David that's here brings the King David tells us elsewhere that one who trust in God is surrounded by kindness why did King David have to go through this difficult situation according to how he's learning he got sick and he got better but if a person trusts in hasm in the first place why specifically King David he trust in hasm in the first place so why did he have to go through a sickness why did he have to be chased why did he have to go through a hard time why didn't God save him before why didn't has protect him from before for this King David is responding and saying to us the reason that he got sick or any difficult situation he found himself in the purpose of this is for the the the attribute of God's Divine Justice to be recognized in the world if we if we see that judges and brings about negative situations for those who are sadik for those who are righteous for those who are doing God's will why because AEM say doesn't want to give up on anything hasm wants to purify us I would say to soften it for our Western ears sh wants to purify us through our through our difficulties if that's true sikim who are trying to do God's will so then certainly we the regular people or people who are on a lower level because is going to bring about Divine justice so it when a person sees a righteous individual who has difficulties it brings to a sense of fear of healthy fear of good fear fear of sinning I don't want to do what's wrong I don't want to experience a difficult situation this is what he means when he says God put in my mouth a new song to advertise to the world a praise and a beautification to Hashem to El right the name of you know represents the idea of of compassion the name of elim represents godine of of judgment so there is a praise to the to God's Divine attribute of Justice because the impetus the the that which is brought about is a recognition and a sense of awe and fear of Hashem and the end result will also be that people will trust in God 's Mercy as we said right that's the end they'll be afraid of God's Divine attribute of justice but they'll also trust in God's Divine Mercy right as the WR this and say that the gateway to accessing was the the fear of God's greatness His Highness and the aspect of of AEM the Gateway is through a simple lower level of fear of God and this is the ultimate Joy it's finding this kind of balance and coming into a true relationship a lot of the sense of of Despair and sadness that a person experiences in life today in our world is because we are not necessarily where we'd like to be we know we could be better we know we could be higher the end result is an amazing Joy the purpose of which is to recognize that God is the root of everything God is the source of everything whether it's difficult situations that I find in or we find ourselves in or whether it's good situations wonderful situations that we find ourselves in everything is from Hashem okay he brings here from the ve right we said in the previous verse that God took me out of the pit took me out of the quicksand very beautiful AEM God please take me out King David is saying take me out of the quicksand the M of false philosophies of the world says God Place me on F footing on a rock God we we pray we askem it's so easy we need to know the truth we need to live with the truth otherwise we fall we stumble we get sucked into the quicksand so we beg AEM please give me the true understanding of Life give me the lofty understanding God did this when he came down onto Mount Si came down to us they gave us the Torah Mount Si beautifully the says that was the most amazing beautiful new song that had never been heard before because it meant did we hear ever did any Nation ever hear all together a million and a half people the voice of God no one ever claimed such a thing only the Jewish people have made such a claim did anyone ever hear this he says I Want To Praise my God I want to pay back the good that God has given me that's what it means a praise to God is a recognition of the kindness that God has done King David says that from here and on people will see they will fear they trust in God this is an important point right the more that we're involved in Western culture Western Civilization Western thoughts how can I succeed in business how can I make the money how can I how can I succeed and win and reward Etc as long as I'm involved in the philosophy of the world the secular world so the person such a person doesn't have the fear of Heaven and a person like that who's involved in philosophy really the the Western culture and the Western way of thinking so the result is that you don't have access to you don't have because they explain all of nature you can go through business Theory and you can understand how Nations think and how Wars are won and you can understand how people are succeed in business and the tricks that this person did or the how they they you know they were there every single day 12 hour days Etc all the things that people say and why they believe and all the studies show that they succeeded but all those studies and all those philosophies leave out the main thing 99% uh 1% perspiration 99% inspiration other way 99% perspiration perspiration is very important it's important to sweat but that's not it it's 99% and 1% our efforts so King David is telling us this God took me out of the false ideologies the false reasons why the nations of the world and the civilizations say that a person succeeds the person succeeds because a kesu is on his side because he fears hem and he trusts in hem now we come to the Mal says there's two different types of songs King David speaks about a new song what's a new song as opposed to an old song so he says that when it comes to singing about a natural type of Salvation a natural type of situation I got out let's say I had a powerful Army and I was able to succeed and destroying my enemies that's not a that's not a new song when I when I come out of that war it's not a new song it's an old song laid out the laws of nature and part of the laws of nature are whoever's stronger called whoever stronger wins so that's an old song because you're just working with the old rules but a miraculous a miraculous salvation is a new thing it's an unusual situation the song that you sing for such a situation is a brand new song it's a praise to our God when we speak about the name of the Kim so we're used to thinking about it as the name which represents God's Divine justice but the M tells us that it expresses something else it expresses the fact that God is intimately involved in my life which makes sense right if God if there's Justice that means that the things that I do matter right God cares about each and everything that goes on in my life he cares about the things that I do I receive measure for measure based on what I've done that's has to do with so the name praise to our God represents that we praise God for the fact that he's involved in our lives personally and the fact that God has a special connection ction to those who fear Him and those who recognize his name who speak about his name what does it mean when King David says many will see and they will fear that through the fact that Hashem saved me in a miraculous way everyone benefits because when things go in a natural way so that doesn't lend itself to us trusting in God it lends itself to us trusting in ourselves I'll be filling up the magazines with more and more rules of success and what I did in order to succeed and make lots of money Etc you know when things work out according to Nature so we'll go with nature you you go with what works but when when people see that the eye of is looking at and giving direct Divine assistance to the one who [Music] fears the result will be that people will trust in God and they won't place all of their trust on natural means and not Place their trust in their own strength and in their own wisdom so King David is telling us I trust in hasem and I encourage you all to trust in hhm singing a new song because of the N The Unbelievable miracle that God has brought about in my life you know I know time is short here but I still want to read to you from the an amazing idea listen to this this is so important and this is something I heard thanks to one of the listeners of this podcast recommended that I take a look at a video of koseski speaking about the amazing Miracle at 888 years of age and his wife was 56 or 57 years old had a beautiful baby boy elah who who appeared in the video he said he never stopped trusting and he never believed the doctors when they said that it's impossible he was told 65 years ago it be impossible for him to have kids he said I never believed them I always trusted in hem and listen listen to how the kadas Ley explains how that works a person who needs a miracle let's say needs to think like this you need to think look it's not a miracle if wants to do something for me it's not a miracle it doesn't have to be a miracle God is is in you know he can do anything for God there's no difference between nature and miracle and miraculous there's no difference it's exactly the same so if that's the case the smallest act the greatest act they're the same for him so a person can strengthen his faith in God in God blessed is he whatever you need you need a miracle for God a miracle is just the same as nature when you have that intent when you have that recognition and that's 100% clear to you like it was to kushki at the age of 88 you get Divine assistance say an amazing thing if you have a miracle occur to you don't say it's a miracle don't say it's a miracle don't say don't think for a moment that God did this for me and he changed nature this is nature because God can do a miracle for him it's nature it's not even second nature for God it's first nature person who's wise person who's wise understands that there's no difference between oil if God said oil can light God can also make vinegar light it's a famous story I believe it's with there's no difference whether the the water the waters are raging and the storms are storming L the water is tranquil and everything is calm forem it's the same exact thing when it comes to this aspect when it comes to a person recognizes that for God there's no difference between a miracle and nature it's the same exact thing there's no difference that is an incredible thing obviously it's a very high level see keski I highly recommend to watch the video of the interview with him and hear from somebody who really has it what it means how it looks but it's possible I believe for everybody and it's so important to learn this to understand this we can all access through our very high level and don't think of it as a ace for God it's nature thank you so much for listening see you again next time