If I were to give a personal assessment on any given topic, person or situation, I would first have to have a thorough understanding of these through much study and experiences; otherwise I would not be giving it, or anyone, their proper due. So it is with today’s reading; the Psalmist David gives us a complete and absolute affirmation of Who God is to him, by all the experiences which he has surmounted in his life. He declares that the Lord is alive and well; he blesses the Lord for being his impregnable Rock of Defense and Safety, and the Lord is lifted up in his life as his personal and only God, and He alone is his Savior in all facets of both his temporal and Eternal Life.