19 They confronted me on the day of my disaster,
But the Lord was my support.
20 He also brought me out into an open place;
He rescued me, because He delighted in me.
21 The Lord has treated me in accordance with my righteousness;
In accordance with the cleanliness of my hands He has repaid me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not acted wickedly against my God.
23 For all His ordinances were before me,
And as for His statutes, I did not deviate from [j]them.
24 I was also [k]blameless toward Him,
And I have kept myself from my wrongdoing.
25 So the Lord has repaid me in accordance with my righteousness,
In accordance with my cleanliness before His eyes.
26 With the one who is faithful You show Yourself faithful,
With the [l]blameless one You prove Yourself [m]blameless;
27 With the one who is pure You show Yourself pure,
But with the perverted You [n]show Yourself astute.
28 And You save an afflicted people;
But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You humiliate.
Now, this is a passage which would be easy to misunderstand. David calls himself “pure, and clean, faithful, and blameless”. And one would simply have to recall his blunder with Bathsheba to know David was less than perfect.
In context, we have to remember that the Israelites weren’t damned by their sin. It was, rather, failure to offer the appropriate sacrifice, and turning away from God that proved to be their undoing.
The sacrificial system itself was an anticipation that the Israelites would sin, so being pure was a matter of having sinned and offered the appropriate sacrifice. Or put another way, of remembering that God was holy, and that one’s failure required “payment”.
So who does God rescue? In whom does He delight? The one who follows God, not perfectly, but devotedly. With “the one who is faithful”, God will show Himself faithful.
If you have chosen Jesus to be your Savior, and to be your Lord, then you can be sure that He will be your rescue and salvation.