Looking Back, I Still Have a Song to Sing | Psalm 18 | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

Looking Back, I Still Have a Song to Sing | Psalm 18 | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

We all know how to curate a story. We choose the angle, the lighting, the caption. The highlight reel version of our lives is technically true — it’s just edited. But most of us don’t know what to do with the other version: the stress, the fear, the long seasons we didn’t expect, the parts we wouldn’t post.
In this final message of our David’s Playlist series, Pastor Ellis walks us through Psalm 18 — the song David wrote at the end of his life, looking back on everything he’d been through. Not the edited version. All of it.
From Psalm 18, David moves through four movements that helped him make sense of his story, and ours:

1. The Pit — David doesn’t start with the victories. He starts with the low points, because that’s where the story actually begins.
2. The Power — Every time David cried out from the pit, God moved. Heaven shook. Earth trembled. God came down.
3. The Provision — Looking back on every battle won, David gives none of the credit to himself. It was all God.
4. The Praise — The only proper response to remembering what God has done.

If your story feels messier than the version you’d like people to see, Psalm 18 is an invitation to stop editing — and find that God was at work in every part of it.