Our motive is good and right, but the advice is wrong.Д¬. JobвЂ™s friend confidently said, вЂњI will tell you, hear me what I have seen I will declareвЂќ (Job 15:17), but he was wrong. Second, we can be too confident in our own perception of a situation. First, we must always mind our own business and not be busybodies (1 Thessalonians 4:11, 1 Timothy 5:13). We must always be careful with the advice we give to others. Peter meant well, but he was really being used by the devil.

It was like when Peter advised Jesus to not go the way of the cross (Matthew 16:22-23). For look: The advice given to David was well-meant, but ungodly. For look! The wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string: In todayвЂ™s language, DavidвЂ™s friends would say, вЂњLook! There is a loaded gun to your head, and you have to run!вЂќД«. That they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart.ДЄ. They make ready their arrow on the string, (2-3) David remembers the words of fear in the mouths of his friends. вЂњHe would rather dare the danger than exhibit a distrust in the Lord his God.вЂќ (Spurgeon) 2. The advice of fear couldnвЂ™t stand with the position of trust David had in the LORD. No matter how well-intentioned his friends were, they gave him the advice of fear. How can you say to my soul, вЂњFlee as a bird to your mountain?вЂќ: This expressed the near outrage in DavidвЂ™s response to his friends. In such a time, his friends advised him, вЂњFlee as a bird to your mountain.вЂќ His friends meant well, but David knew it was the wrong thing to do.Д«. He was constantly hunted by King Saul and lived in constant danger. In the LORD I put my trust: In the years before he took the throne of Israel, David lived the life of a fugitive. (1) David reacts to the advice to flee.ДЄ. He knew the safest place to stand was in radical trust in God. David lifted his eyes to the LORD to find faith in a time of testing. This psalm records well-intentioned, but faithless advice of DavidвЂ™s friends when he was a fugitive from King Saul. Some believe that the Chief Musician is the Lord GOD Himself, and others suppose him to be a leader of choirs or musicians in DavidвЂ™s time, such as Heman the singer or Asaph (1 Chronicles 6:33, 16:5-7, and 25:6).

The title tells us both the author and the audience of the psalm: To the Chief Musician. Psalm 11 вЂ“ The Answer of Faith to the Advice of Fear

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