Psalm 11:1 “In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?”
Psalm 11 illustrates the perpetual conflict between those who love the Lord and those who hate the Lord and His Commandments for worship and morality and integrity. Day by day the contrast between those who love the Lord and those who hate Him is becoming more and more stark (Romans 1:30). In just such a time, the Psalmist drew his line in the sand when he declared, “In the LORD put I my trust”; that is, not in myself, not in institutions, not in any man, and not in government; but, while “the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing” (Psalms 2:1; Acts 4:25), “In the LORD put I my trust”! The tense of the phrase, “In the LORD put I my trust”, is perpetual; that is, in every generation there are those faithful Children of God who uncompromisingly “trust” “In the Lord”! The raging heathen have no confidence in our “LORD” or our faith, they see the faithful Children of God as whimpering fools; they even, “say … to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain”; that is, you are like a frightened little “bird” that has no defense but to fly away and hide in some hole in “your mountain”. Those who hate the Lord are “the wicked” who “bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart” (Psalm 11:2). But, the faithful Children of God rest in the Sovereign power and authority of the Lord our merciful God; for, ultimately our “LORD” always gets the victory. The wicked are indeed terrible; “But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.” (Psalm 64:7) and “Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.” (Psalm 11:6)! In the meantime, faithful Children of God “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:11) and “stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD” (Exodus 14:13)!