As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
David had flatted himself too confidently in his prosperity, and security bred carelessness that God rightly chastised. When Absalom's rebellion was crushed and David returned to his throne, he dedicated his house with thanksgiving, confessing both his former false confidence and God's faithful discipline toward him.
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Commenting on Psalm 30:1-12
In my prosperity. When all his foes were quiet, and his rebellious son dead and buried, then was the time of peril. Many a vessel founders in a calm. No temptation is so bad as tranquillity. I said, I shall never be moved. Ah!
Prosperity makes us dream that things will always be so, and we foolishly imagine our mountain stands strong by our own wisdom or fortitude, forgetting we owe it all to divine favor alone. We forget that it is earth still, only raised higher, not heaven.
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Commenting on Psalm 30:6-12