And in my prosperity
Either outward prosperity, when he was settled in his kingdom,
and as acknowledged king by all the tribes of Israel, and had
gotten the victory over all his enemies, and was at rest from
them round about; or inward and spiritual prosperity, having a
spiritual appetite for the word, being in the lively exercise of
grace, growing in it, and in the knowledge of Christ; favoured
with communion with God, having flesh discoveries of pardoning
grace and mercy, corruptions being subdued, the inward man
renewed with spiritual strength, and more fruitful in every good
word and work. This being the case,
I said, I shall never be moved;
so in outward prosperity men are apt to sing a requiem to
themselves, and fancy it will always be thus with them, be in
health of body, and enjoying the affluence of temporal things,
and so put away the evil day in one sense and another from them;
and even good men themselves are subject to this infirmity, (
Job
29:18-20 ) ; and who also, when in comfortable frames of
soul, and in prosperous circumstances in spiritual things, are
ready to conclude if will always be thus with them, or better.
Indeed they can never be moved as to their state and condition
with respect to God; not from his heart, where they are set as a
seal; nor out of the arms of Christ, and covenant of grace; nor
out of the family of God; nor from a state of justification and
grace; but they may be moved as to the exercise of grace and
discharge of duty, in which they vary; and especially when they
are self-confident, and depend upon their own strength for the
performance of these things, and for a continuance in such
frames, which seems to have been David's case; and therefore he
corrects himself, and his sense of things, in ( Psalms 30:7 ) .