of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: Wait I say on the Lord.” Now he brings the element of time into focus. Wait on the Lord; our time is in His hands. God is never in a hurry, because He can never fail. We have to be patient and remember that God does not and cannot break His promises to us if we remain faithful. King Saul neglected to wait and it cost him his crown. David learned a lifelong lesson from that. His last words to us are, “Wait on the Lord.” We are not to wait fretfully, fitfully, or fatalistically; but we are to wait on the Lord (Phillips, 207).This psalm deeply reveals David’s soul, and his loving devotion to God. He is now at a point where he is safe and secure, and he is very gracious. He recalls all the dangers in the past, that God had saved him from, and that is what keeps him so strong in faith. To express his gratitude to God, he devoted himself to the Lord. He made the request to dwell in the house of the Lord, and through this request he becomes a servant in God’s house. We should use David’s mood and mental state in this psalm as and example of the way we should be with God in our lives. Like David we should devote ourselves completely to serving the Lord. So that we may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our lives, and see the face of the Lord as David did. We should be confident in the Lord always, and He will take away all of our fears. He loves us and desires for us to have the kind of relationship with Him that David had (Makrakis, 165)....
