So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
This is one of David's songs of thankfulness for deliverance from trials, and it points beyond him to Christ, the greater David, by whose Spirit he spoke. It is the response to God hearing prayer and vows, giving the heritage that belongs to those who fear His name, adding days to the King and establishing Him forever enthroned at God's right hand guarded by mercy and truth. It looks to a king with lengthened life sitting before God, with his throne established in Immanuel's line and surrounded by mercy and truth.
God's name is to be praised continually and forever by faithfully performing vows to Him day by day. Praise to God and the keeping of vows belong together, so that singing praise to His name is joined to carrying out what is vowed to Him daily in a life of praise and obedience. When the psalms are let into the heart to meet personal need, seeing human wickedness and God's deserved retribution and just anger against incorrigible wrongdoing, together with His mercy and loving-kindness, produces this lifelong praise of His name joined with daily keeping of vows to Him.
Continual remembrance of God and meditation on Him reveals His goodness and results in continual praise and thanksgiving to His name. That singing of praise expresses confidence in God, which is faith, and it is a powerful help in overcoming the world, enabling the daily performance of vows. The lessons of the Psalms are to be taken to heart so that they shape such a life of praise and obedience. Vows to God are to be remembered and kept faithfully day by day as accountable before Heaven, including a solemn church pledge to obey Christ's command to go privately to an erring person first.
This is one of David's songs of thankfulness for deliverance from trials, and it points beyond him to Christ, the greater David, by whose Spirit he spoke. It is the response to God hearing prayer and vows, giving the heritage that belongs to those who fear His name, adding days to the King and establishing Him forever enthroned at God's right hand guarded by mercy and truth. It looks to a king with lengthened life sitting before God, with his throne established in Immanuel's line and surrounded by mercy and truth.
God's name is to be praised continually and forever by faithfully performing vows to Him day by day. Praise to God and the keeping of vows belong together, so that singing praise to His name is joined to carrying out what is vowed to Him daily in a life of praise and obedience. When the psalms are let into the heart to meet personal need, seeing human wickedness and God's deserved retribution and just anger against incorrigible wrongdoing, together with His mercy and loving-kindness, produces this lifelong praise of His name joined with daily keeping of vows to Him.
Continual remembrance of God and meditation on Him reveals His goodness and results in continual praise and thanksgiving to His name. That singing of praise expresses confidence in God, which is faith, and it is a powerful help in overcoming the world, enabling the daily performance of vows. The lessons of the Psalms are to be taken to heart so that they shape such a life of praise and obedience. Vows to God are to be remembered and kept faithfully day by day as accountable before Heaven, including a solemn church pledge to obey Christ's command to go privately to an erring person first.