Here, 1. David adores God as the God of nature and the author of his
being: Thy hands have made me and fashioned me, Job x. 8. Every man is
as truly the work of God's hands as the first man was, Ps. cxxxix. 15,
16. "Thy hands have not only made me, and given me a being, otherwise I
should never have been, but fashioned me, and given me this being, this
noble and excellent being, endued with these powers and faculties;" and
we must own that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 2. He addresses
himself to God as the God of grace, and begs he will be the author of
his new and better being. God made us to serve him and enjoy him; but
by sin we have made ourselves unable for his service and indisposed for
the enjoyment of him; and we must have a new and divine nature,
otherwise we had the human nature in vain; therefore David prays,
"Lord, since thou hast made me by thy power for thy glory, make me anew
by thy grace, that I may answer the ends of my creation and live to
some purpose: Give me understanding, that I may learn thy
commandments." The way in which God recovers and secures his interest
in men is by giving them an understanding; for by that door he enters
into the soul and gains possession of it.