Psalm 34

To whom does God stay near? Who attracts his attention the quickest? In this psalm David said it is the broken hearted and discouraged(vs 18). There is only one way that I can think of that would enable David to make such a claim; he had been both. And in the brokenness of his life he understood that God was near. When he was most discouraged, like he was when he acted insane before Abimelech in an attempt to save his life, he witnessed God's deliverance. It take coming through the despair in order for most of us to understand how God works.
Stuart