Psalms 62:5-7
For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,
for my hope is from him.
He only is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
On God rests my salvation and my glory;
my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
The two key words in this passage for me are "alone" and "rests." In the first line the writer states, "For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence." We tend to wait in panic, not silence. We tend to wait in anxiousness, not silence. The reason we have this anxiousness is that we trust in other things, rather than in Christ "alone." The reason for our anxiousness is that we put our trust in things that can't be trusted. We place our lives in the hands of fate and/or luck and/or man ... this will take away the other key word in this passage: "Rest." The writer states in the second to the last line, "On God rests my salvation and my glory." Note that the author not only says his "salvation" rests on God, but also any honor or praise or "glory" he gets in life. If we have God "alone" we can rest in the fact that our honor and salvation will come from Him, as well. We tend to think God is in charge of our salvation but we are in charge of our honor ... we think we earn it ... we think we deserve it. The truth of the matter is that God gives us both our salvation in the future the honor we have for the life in the present. God is God alone and our hope alone. That is a truth we can rest upon. Knowing God has our future and our present should give us great peace and rest.
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