For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
David could have given thanks to God in private, but he testified publicly that whatever blessings God conferred upon him redounded to the common good of all His people. Yet above all, the Holy Spirit directs our minds here to Christ, who was the end and perfection of this kingdom, teaching us we cannot be saved except under the Head God Himself appointed.
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Commenting on Psalm 21:1-13
"For thou hast made him most blessed for ever." He is most blessed in himself, for he is God over all, blessed for ever; but this relates to him as our Mediator, in which capacity blessedness is given to him as a reward. The margin has it, thou hast set him to be blessings; he is an overflowing wellspring of blessings to others, a sun filling the universe with light.
David made God's strength his confidence and God's salvation his joy, not the success of armies. Happy the people whose king trusts God to bear him out in all he does for the service of His kingdom. Our Lord Jesus, in His great undertaking, relied upon help from heaven and pleased Himself with the prospect of that great salvation He was thereby to work out.
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Commenting on Psalm 21:1-6