Psalm 18: 35c
... And Thy gentleness makes me great.
This is a long Psalm, commemorating that God had given him victory over all his enemies and established his position as king over all Israel. All the mighty and violent battles and all the dangers he experienced; all the hard and sharp things of the battles; yet he claims that God's gentleness is what has made him strong. Not His might and strength and vengeance.
I think that David perceived God's dealings with him personally as very gentle and kind. As I have.
No matter how hard the times are, how prickly the issues, how sharp and piercing the pain; God's rescues reveal His gentleness in His strength, and His kindness in His vengeance.
David wanted to show God's kindness to himself by extending kindness to the grandson of his enemy:
II Samuel 9
This chapter records David's kindness to Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son and Saul's grandson, who was lame in both feet. And Ziba, Saul's servant, became Mephibosheth's servant, along with his 15 sons and his own 20 servants, working Mephibosheth's land that had been Saul's.
And Mephibosheth eats at King David's table with David's own sons regularly.
I am also "lame in both feet," so to say, and I will also sit at my King's table regularly in His Kingdom.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
