Psalm of the Week - 84:11 - May 22, 2017

The author of this psalm is King David.  

David's life shows how he walked closely with God, then let the world move him from God, and after he admitted his mistakes, he once again walked closely with God. 

• The Lord God is a sun — He will enlighten, direct, and comfort all his people; in contrast people that live without God in the world walk in darkness and do not know where they go, (John 12:35) 
• and shield — He will defend them from all their enemies, and from those awful and destructive problems which happen to all other men. 
• The Lord will give grace — His favor and friendship, which are better than life. Psalm 63:3. And all the blessed fruits of it, especially the influences, gifts, and graces of his Spirit; 
• and glory — Not the vain glory and splendor of this world...but the honor which comes from God here, and that eternal...glory saved for God’s people in the future world. 
• No good thing will he withhold — Nothing that is truly good in itself, and which would be good for them...While the good things of this world ...would be very hurtful to them, as is verified by frequent experiments. 
• From them that walk uprightly — That worship and serve God sincerely, and order their conversation aright. 

Any bad that happened to David, was his own fault. 

David here assigns the true reason, which was not any defect in God’s goodness and all-sufficiency, but only his own misconduct, whereby he had clouded this sun, and cast away this shield, and forfeited these privileges by departing from his integrity.

Bullet points and ending paragraph of this post are adapted from the Benson Commentary.