Psalms 23:5
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil, my cup runs over.
You anoint my head with oil.
In the heat of the summer I often find myself out in my pasture with a bottle of baby oil. Oil is good for so many thing that involves out door animals. For my horse I use it to get out burs, to shield his legs from fly eggs (yuck) to remove ticks some days (double yuck) to discourage flies. Oil is the farmer’s go to. It is the same with shepherds, they use oil for the same things I just named. Oil in Bible times was also often used for anointing and for greeting honored guests to a banquet, they would use special oil, (most likely not the value size bottle of Jameson that I buy).
So when David speaks of God anointing our heads with oil it can have multiple imagery.
God protects us from things that would harm us, He removes things that are bad that already cling to us, He anoints us as His children and as guests welcome at His banquet.
Take away:
God anoints us as His children, then proceeds to protect us and care for us.
There is another anointing in the Bible that is significant. When Mary anoints Jesus’s feet. We are anointed as God’s children because a long time ago His only begotten son went to
Carried in the cross 