Finding Rest in our Rock and Fortress

Psalms 62:1-8  For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.  (2)  He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.  (3)  How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down-- this leaning wall, this tottering fence?  (4)  They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. Selah  (5)  Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.  (6)  He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.  (7)  My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.  (8)  Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Selah

I'm not sure if there is another psalm like this.

At the start of the psalm David proclaims - my soul finds rest in God alone!  There is no one else, nothing else, where his heart rests.  God is his rock and salvation, his fortress.  And because of this he will never be shaken!

Now this is what every believers heart must proclaim!

But wait...in verse 5 David isn't proclaiming.  He's speaking, to his heart, telling his heart who God is - find rest, O my soul, in God alone.  Almost as if he's praying...O heart, find rest in God!  Because his hope comes from him, his rock, his salvation, his fortress.  God did not lose His place in David's heart.  David just realized that though he did proclaim that his soul did find rest in God alone, there are circumstances where his soul needed to be reminded.

Look at verse 3-4... (3)  How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down-- this leaning wall, this tottering fence?  (4)  They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. 

Two things we see here.  First, there were people who were assaulting him, intending to topple him from his position.  They were double faced people - blessing him at one moment, and the next they were cursing him.  Backstabbers.

Times like this we need to remind our soul on whom we rest.

Then, look how David described himself in verse 3 - "this leaning wall, this tottering fence".  It's a wall, a fence, that could easily fall at any moment, with one small push.  No wonder he needed to remind his soul where to find rest.

This is why I love David, and so many other Bible characters...they never boasted in themselves.  In fact they were very sober, clear minded, when it came to who they were.  And so should we.

We cannot boast in our strength, in our stature.  In our hearts we need to remind ourselves that we are a leaning wall, a tottering fence, and with one push of any trial or problem in life we could fall anytime.

But this is why we lean on God, rest in Him.  This is why we proclaim always who He is - our Rock, our fortress...He alone, and no one or nothing else.

This is also why we need to remind our soul again and again - find rest, O my soul, in God alone!  When we're being pushed, and about to fall, the only one we should be leaning on is our Rock.

At all times proclaim who He is - our Rock, our fortress.

At all times, especially when we're being pushed, remind your soul where we should be resting in... our Rock and fortress.

We will never be shaken.