A Chiastic Look at Humility: 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18

It’s Thanksgiving Week! As I (Joel) write this, today is Lancaster’s Extra Give, a one-day explosion of generosity for over 400 non-profit organizations in our county.
I love that the Extra Give is always so close to Thanksgiving, because it seems to me that the two days go hand in hand. When we give, we are expressing our gratitude to an organization. Thinking about that, I need to go on a tangent. Thank you for your generosity to Faith Church this year! Have you been following the weekly giving report in these emails? If not, I encourage you to give it a look. Through the combination of your generosity and rental income, our church family income is greater than our budgeted weekly need. That’s amazing, and I praise God for you and for our renters.
Considering our renters, I need to go on another tangent. If you do some research into comparable rental space in Lancaster, you'll discover we are providing our renters an amazingly generous deal. After all, it’s God’s building, isn’t it? We want our rental churches to have a quality and affordable space to worship. We also give some local organizations, like the Scouts and SEEDS, free use of our building.
My point in these tangents is to direct your attention to the intersection of generosity and gratitude because our next sermon in the Life of David focuses on generosity and gratitude. In 2 Samuel chapter 22, David breaks out in song. No surprise there, as about 75 psalms in the Book of Psalms are attributed to David. In fact, 2 Samuel 22 is Psalm 18. Now entering the twilight of his life, David takes time to reflect and thank God, just like we do every year at Thanksgiving, and David is full of praise.