Psalm 27 raises multiple potentially troublesome situations that may befall God’s people. Today we list the problems.  Next time we check the responses, all of which are a version of “The Lord is my light and my salvation” (verse 1).  It is a bad day when:

• Evildoers assail me (verse 2)
• Evildoers eat up my flesh (2)
• An army encamps against me (3)
• War arises against me (3)
• My father and my mother forsake me (10)
• False witnesses arise against me (12)
• False witnesses breathe out violence (12)

When such conditions occur, Wait for the LORD; be strong and take courage (verse 14)