A very important point for you and me to learn, is in this Psalm; that the wonderful position every believer is in, is greater than the best circumstances a person could be in on this earth. We might think that when everything is quiet, a nice job, happy marriage, good health and so on, that that is true happiness. But Scripture reminds us in 1 Peter 3:14 that there is a happiness which is ours when we’re in opposite circumstances — suffering. So we realize that the Lord has left us an example in His own life of sorrow (1 Pet. 2:21).
V.1-3 A soul who has everything out before the Lord and confesses it to Him, is conscious that he (she) has been lifted up out of the pit.