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The confidence and encouragement of trust
In Psalm 62 confidence is more expressed. It is not looking from
an overwhelmed heart, but a free looking up, so that one is not
overwhelmed. His soul waits on God, has none else indeed, but does
not desire any other. There is a "how long? as well as a
waiting. God will certainly come in at the right time, and then it
will be known to whom power belongs. The psalm is spoken
individually and may be in the mouth of any one of the godly
remnant. How long would they imagine mischief against a man? What
was their object? Why have him thus in hatred, and by falsehood
seek to root him out of his place — the place of God's blessing, in
which He had placed the godly in Israel? But this, I doubt not,
has special application to Christ as the One who was indeed in
this place, and against whom all their malice was directed to cast
Him down from His excellency. He invites also the people (Jewish)
to trust in God, to pour out their hearts before Him, and, putting
Himself with them in this place, says, not only, "my refuge is in
God," but He is "a refuge for us." In saying "my" He shows that He
had it; but these maschilim (the wise) shall instruct the many and
turn to righteousness many of them.* Above all did that truly
understanding One do so. They were not to trust in the great and
violent ones of the earth. Power belongs to God, and with Him is
mercy. They may trust in Him as a God of righteousness, and walk
uprightly and not be turned aside by the prosperity of the wicked;
for the Lord (Adonai) will reward every man according to his
works. It is the desire to cast down the poor of the flock
(because the wicked after all have the consciousness that the
excellency of God is with them, and specially with Christ), which
draws out this psalm, which expresses the faith of the saint, and
the warning to the people to trust God and not the mighty. They
are exalted in the earth; but true elevation from God is with
Christ, and those who thus walk, who fear God and obey the voice
of His servant. |
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