This same rejected King, the disowned Son of David, is here heard also. He is blessedly making God everything to Him. He will own no other refuge, or source of strength, but God. God is His rock, His salvation, His glory. His soul waits only upon Him, and all His expectation is from Him. (See Heb. 10:12-13, and see Psa. 110.) This is a truly excellent expression of the faith of the rejected Jesus, who was the Remnant, as we may speak, in His day; and most acceptable must have been the incense of it before God.
In this Psalm, Jesus enjoys God as His Rock; in Psalm 61 He desired the Rock-and He encourages His people to have the same mind, and to cease from man; and challenges the men of this world for their deceit and violence and false confidence.
Well indeed has He learned the lesson, that “power belongeth unto God.” For once God had spoken it, but twice Jesus had heard it. He had heard it with a full witness of its truth; so wide did He open His ear to divine instruction morning by morning (Isa. 1:4). Man is a duller scholar. (See Job 33:14.)
Thus the Lord shows Himself separate from fallen man. He trusts only in God, and will take only from God. The devil would have had Him trust him, and take from him, as Adam did of old (Gen. 3), and as the Apostate will by and by (Rev. 13:2), but He refused (Matt. 4).
And He has learned God’s mercy also. Because, though God Himself is everything, as their utterance had owned, yet will He give every one the reward of his works. Though He works all our works in us, yet will He deal with them as ours, and reward even the cup of cold water given in the name of Jesus.