Here is, 1. David's prayer for the salvation of the Lord. "Lord, thou
art my Saviour; I am miserable in myself, and thou only canst make me
happy; let thy salvation come to me. Hasten temporal salvation to me
from my present distresses, and hasten me to the eternal salvation, by
giving me the necessary qualifications for it and the comfortable
pledges and foretastes of it." 2. David's dependence upon the grace and
promise of God for that salvation. These are the two pillars on which
our hope is built, and they will not fail us:--(1.) The grace of God:
Let thy mercies come, even thy salvation. Our salvation must be
attributed purely to God's mercy, and not to any merit of our own.
Eternal life must be expected as the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Jude 21. "Lord, I have by faith thy mercies in view; let me by prayer
prevail to have them come to me." (2.) The promise of God: "Let it come
according to thy word, thy word of promise. I trust in thy word, and
therefore may expect the performance of the promise." We are not only
allowed to trust in God's word, but our trusting in it is the condition
of our benefit by it. 3. David's expectation of the good assurance
which that grace and promise of God would give him: "So shall I have
wherewith to answer him that reproaches me for my confidence in God, as
if it would deceive me." When God saves those out of their troubles who
trusted in him he effectually silences those who would have shamed that
counsel of the poor (Ps. xiv. 6), and their reproaches will be for ever
silenced when the salvation of the saints is completed; then it will
appear, beyond dispute, that it was not in vain to trust in God.