This is another Psalm of praise. Indeed the last few psalms are all predominantly psalms of praise.
David contrasts praising the Lord to putting our trust in human princes. There are two ways to live life. One is to live it praising and trusting on God. The other is to seek machinations with men, but men cannot save us. When a man dies he is of no further use, and all his plans come to nothing. Better by far to trust in the Living God, the Everlasting Lord.
Our God is the maker of heaven and earth, and everything in them. Who does it make more sense to praise? The Lord who is the creator of all things, or mere men who are here one minute gone the next?
Our God sets prisoners free, He provides, and He heals.
He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but He frustrates the ways of the wicked. We need to remember this latter aspect as well as the others. For we see the wicked prospering, but this will not go on forever.
David contrasts praising the Lord to putting our trust in human princes. There are two ways to live life. One is to live it praising and trusting on God. The other is to seek machinations with men, but men cannot save us. When a man dies he is of no further use, and all his plans come to nothing. Better by far to trust in the Living God, the Everlasting Lord.
Our God is the maker of heaven and earth, and everything in them. Who does it make more sense to praise? The Lord who is the creator of all things, or mere men who are here one minute gone the next?
Our God sets prisoners free, He provides, and He heals.
He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but He frustrates the ways of the wicked. We need to remember this latter aspect as well as the others. For we see the wicked prospering, but this will not go on forever.
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