You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
David shows us that true happiness rests on one thing alone: God's free forgiveness of our guilt and full acceptance of our persons. Without this reconciliation, men either writhe in torment or drift into deadly forgetfulness of both God and themselves, unable to imagine that He could be gracious to them at all.
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Commenting on Psalm 32:1-11
Thou art my hiding place. Terse, short sentences make up this verse, but they contain a world of meaning. Personal claims upon our God are the joy of spiritual life. To lay our hand upon the Lord with the clasp of a personal "my" is delight at its full.
Having tasted the sweetness of pardoning mercy, David cannot doubt God will preserve him from trouble and guard him from returning to folly. God keeps His people from trouble by keeping them from sin. Now converted, he instructs others: whoever desires instruction, I will teach you in the great congregation.
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Commenting on Psalm 32:7-11