Psalm 28: David's First Attack

Verse 6: "Praise be to the Lord, for he has heard my cry for mercy."

David's prayer suddenly changes from a plea for help to a song of thanksgiving starting from verse 6. Why did this change occur? If we consider the time difference, we can see that God answered David's plea for help. After that, David combined his prayer and song of thanksgiving together. However, if we don't consider the time difference and assume that David ended his prayer with a song of thanksgiving, the story would be different. In that case, it would be David's first attack towards God. He preemptively sang a song of thanksgiving, proclaiming that God is his strength, shield, and savior. David used all his means to limit God's choice. He set a trap for God. God had to walk the path that David had prepared. In other words, David followed the principle of "do your best and leave the rest to heaven". Will God fall into David's trap?

In the Old Testament, David reached up to the sky from the ground by poking it, while in the New Testament, Jesus made a preemptive hole in the sky. This is the Beatitudes, which unfolds from Matthew chapter 5. Look at the trap that Jesus set for David's descendants. There is no need to do your best to meet the conditions for becoming poor in spirit anymore. There is no need to fulfill the conditions of suffering. If we understand poverty, purity of heart, and suffering as conditions, Jesus becomes smaller. Isn't living on earth itself a sufficient condition for Jesus to bless us?