Have you ever experienced a relationship that really left you in a lurch? Put you in a bad position & you got the wrong end of the stick?

You know it’s that relationship that left you holding the bag, that left you with a bad taste in your mouth, or left things up in the air?

It doesn’t take long to realize that relationships are tough…

Family relationships can be really tough & in some cases even life threatening

Such is the case today…Psalm 63 is about David running for his life from his son Absalom

Psalm 63 was written in accordance with 2 Samuel 15-18…when King David was betrayed by his son Absalom & King David with his household fled Jerusalem for fear of their life.

-2 Samuel 15 records Absalom’s manipulative behavior with people…so much so. That in v. 6 it tells it all: so he stole the hearts of the people of Israel.

Stole their hearts from whom? His dad…King David

-2 Samuel 16 Absalom in a public effort to humiliate & make himself an equal to his king father had sex with King David’s 10 wives

v. 21 “Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father. The hands of all who are with you will also be strengthened.”

-2 Samuel 17 Absalom thought it was good counsel to send 12,000 men after his dad had fled Jerusalem & kill his dad

I’m going to go out on a limb here, but I would assume that Absalom didn’t get what he wanted from his kingly dad

I’m also going to assume that David didn’t get what he desired out of his son

Point being relationships are challenging, especially when those relationships are not meeting your needs or expectations in that relationship.

David is about to teach us what we are to do when our relationships are less than fulfilling less than satisfying.

David is teaching us how to be satisfied in any relationship