While pushing through Psalms, I find many of David’s prayers (songs?) oddly insightful.
Not really in the “he is speaking doctrine” way, but in the “a person who spent much of his time writing and publishing these writing could still lose it all so spectacularly.”
Humility and reliance on the Lord early in life will not save you late in life.
It’s not enough to work hard for a few years. I truly must waste and wear our my life in service. I truly must keep my eye single to the glory of God.
David didn’t. And at the end, he committed adultery and murder to get what he wanted, because he couldn’t, like Joseph in Egypt, “get him out.”
David is someone to learn from in his early days, and then actually follow his own guidance and instruction, because David didn’t.
I’ll keep to my thesis: we don’t need hundreds of Psalms to understand this point.