Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
David came to the throne through almost insurmountable trials, and foreign enemies harassed him even into old age. Rather than boast of his own victories, he exalts God as the true author of them, showing that his reign prefigures Christ's kingdom, one that will triumph over all resistance by the Father's incomprehensible power.
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Commenting on Psalm 18:1-50
God fashions the vessel first, then honors it; the Potter does the real work, yet bestows the prize upon His own handiwork. The gardener rears the flower that wins at the show, but the reward is not withheld from what His hands have made.
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When God visibly took David's part, He both cleared his innocence before men and confirmed the testimony of his own conscience. A wicked departure from God is one done willfully and without recovery; but those who stumble yet repent and press forward have not truly forsaken Him.
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Commenting on Psalm 18:20-28