Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study - God Delights in You | Historical Books | 2 Samuel 22

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

Have you recognized your limits? Where should our confidence come from? Do you know God's delight for you? In today's episode, Tanya shares how 2 Samuel 22 encourages us to live like people God delights in. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Samuel 22

Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life. In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Tanya Wilmeth. Have you ever hit a moment that you couldn't fix? You couldn't outrun. You really just couldn't do it on your own. This is not just a hard day, but an actual breaking point where you realize I can't do this. Or maybe you realize I am just not enough.

I remember one of those moments vividly. One summer afternoon, I took my four littles to our neighbor, Mr. Tapp's pool. He traveled pretty often, and he had just invited us to come. over when he was away. The kids were really small, so I honestly don't know what I was thinking. They were six months, three, five, and seven. And I was in the pool. I was holding the baby when one of the older kids launched off the rope swing into the deep end without one of those pedal jumpers on, without a life jacket on, without anything on, actually. So I had this instant panic. It's the kind where your body freezes before it actually moves because I had a baby

in my arms who couldn't swim in the pool. I had another child already in the water who was sinking to the with a deep bend. And there was only one of me. Without really thinking, I gently kind of tossed the baby over my shoulder into the shallow end where I could reach her really quickly. I swam for the sinking toddler. I pulled her up and I made it back to the baby just in time. It was over in seconds. The kids don't remember it other than me telling them about it, but it just really left me completely unraveled. Because of course, like you, I would do anything to save my kids. But I knew right then there's some things I can't do. I can't be in all places. I can't hold it all. I am not enough. And the older our kids get, if we have them, or the heavier our life gets, so whatever stage we're in,

the more we realize we are not their final safety and we are not our own either. But there is a rescuer. Listen to these words from David in 2 Samuel 22, 17 through 20. They actually echo the words of Psalm 18 in case you think these sound familiar. It says he reached down from on high and took hold of me. He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place. He rescued me because he delighted in me.

Now this is David's song after years of danger and betrayal and survival. This is David's song after he was out of the hands of Saul. He's not taking a victory lap per se. He's singing a rescue song. He's not saying, I figured it out. He's saying God pulled me out. Here's what we see about God in this song. First, we see that God reached down. He came close to David. We see that God rescued David from enemies that were too strong for David. David couldn't overpower them on his own. We see that God supported David in the disaster. Not after it passed, but while it was going on. We see that God brought David into a spacious place. Now, this means a lot to me because I don't like to be all cooped up, but a spacious place, which I think here means that God was making room in David's heart and his mind where fear had closed in and made him feel like he was isolated and trapped. And finally, the line that changes everything, he rescued me because he delighted in me.

That line, he delighted in me, should give us pause because we know David's story. We know the failures, the sin, the cover-ups, the consequences. So how can David say, God delighted in me? How can David say God rescued me because of righteousness or faithfulness? Well, David wasn't pretending to be perfect. He was remembering who God was and who God had been to him. Romans 3.10 says very plainly, there is no one righteous, not even one. And David knew that. He wasn't rescued because he deserved it. He was rescued. He was rescued. because God is faithful, because mercy is who God is. Because even after the things that happen, the things, the sin, the disaster, God delights in saving us. David is rescued because of God's covenant with Him. And we are rescued because of God's covenant through Christ. Hebrews 726 tells us that Jesus was holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners. And Roman says, through the obedience

of one man, Jesus Christ, the many will be made righteous. And that's our confidence. Not that we climbed out, but that he reached down. Not that we are holding on or held on to God, but that he took hold of us. So just like David, we can say with full honesty and full hope and full assurance, he rescued me because he delighted in me. I wonder, what would it look like for you to live like someone God delights in? Maybe it would look like walking into rooms without needing to prove anything, because you know you're already welcome there.

Maybe it would sound like praying more often and more honestly, without feeling guilty or without trying to impress. Maybe it would feel like real freedom from shame, even the kind that lingers after you've confessed or been forgiven. Living like someone God delights in doesn't mean that we pretend life it's easy. It means we can move through it with a steady confidence that we're going to be. we are not just accepted by God, but we are loved. We are wanted. So living like one that God delights in, it might shift how you speak to your kids. It might change how you recover from a mistake. It might alter how you talk to God about your struggles without trying to clean them up first, or how you talk to others about them. We don't sound like David because we figured everything out. We sound like

David when we finally recognize that we have been pulled out of deep water. Not because we're strong, but because God is good and God is enough. Not because we did something fabulous, but because he reached in when we didn't. That is the kind of rescue that only God can give.