King David’s Theme Song Series

You probably can sing a television theme song, and someone could name that tune right away. The theme song identifies the show. Even when the older shows are gone their theme song live on. If any of us sang Gilligan’s Island or Beverly Hillbillies, then the rest of us could sing along.

Do you have a theme song? King David had one. In fact, he wrote his own life theme song. We will look at King David’s Theme song. When you come across the spiritual depth, love for God, richness of praise and the great expressions of his faith in this song you know, it’s King David’s theme song.

This is David’s theme song, and you can identify him by his depth of love for God, riches of praise and great expressions of his faith. This inspired song can teach us about God, help us to express our love for him, bring us comfort in difficulty. It will help our spirit soar in times of rejoicing.

King David led a diverse life. He experienced the life of a humble shepherd boy to the life of a powerful king. He killed a giant and became a national hero. He fell in sin and created lifelong problems for himself. He experienced being pure of heart and on the other extreme he committed adultery and murder.

He experienced a spiritual high when Almighty God made a covenant with him and told him, “Your house and your kingdom will endure forever. Your throne will be established forever.” (2 Samuel 7:16)

David experienced family troubles to unbelievable lows. One of his sons murdered another and then turned on him in a political coup and David had to flee his kingdom. It was the tragic fulfillment of a prophecy, “the sword will not depart from your house.” (2 Samuel 12:10)

King David experienced the highs and the lows. He was described as a man after God’s own heart. 2 Samuel 22 could be considered David’s theme song. This song was sung when God delivered David from his enemies. The song is a song of reflection on the life of King David. It is the same song found in Psalm 18 only a little different here.

This song has extremely high praise of God and is filled with metaphors. Some of the metaphors describe God as, a Rock, a Fortress, deliverer, refuge, shield, salvation, strength and lamp. There are mentioned many of the qualities of God: exalted, perfect, flawless and the power of earthquake, volcano and storm. And with all this verse 50, “Therefore I will praise you, O Lord.”

This inspired song can teach us about God, help us express our love for Him, bring us comfort in difficulty, and help our spirit soar in times of rejoicing. Verse one speaks of the song itself and the occasions that David sung this song. The difference in Psalm 18 is that it starts out, “I love you.” It is a love song to God.

David sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. (2 Samuel 22:1)

I knew a song writer who wrote lots of songs and commercial jingles. One of his love songs became a big hit record. He wrote these songs before he put his faith in Jesus Christ. After his faith in Christ, he continued to write songs. On one occasion he started writing a love song for his wife. He was overcome with emotion and tears began to flow. The song which began as a love song for his wife became a love song for God and thanksgiving for his spiritual salvation.

This theme song of King David is also a love song he wrote for God. In verse 4 David says that God is worthy of praise. He pours out praise for God. David describes the characteristics of God. The Lord is my rock. The bible gives a contrast of a wise man who builds his house on a rock and a foolish man who builds his house on the sand.

David asked for deliverance in verses 5-7.

The waves of death swirled about me;

the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

6 The cords of the grave coiled around me;

the snares of death confronted me.

7 “In my distress I called to the LORD;

I called out to my God.

From his temple he heard my voice;

my cry came to his ears.

This song must have been the standard for deliverance. When the prophet Jonah was in the belly of the great fish, he was singing this song or at least he quotes this, “in my distress I called to the Lord, the waves of death swirled around me.” (Jonah 2:2) If Jonah is singing this song in his distress, then we should remember this song too in times of our distress.