Psalms 63:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This is a blessed verse, if read with reference to Christ. As God the Father declared himself to be well pleased in his Son's mediation; so Christ is said to be well pleased in finishing the work the Father gave him to do. Nay, Jesus himself said (so delighted was he with the sons of men as their Redeemer sent by the Father), that the law of God his Father was within his very heart; or, as the margin of our Bibles reads (with the greatest propriety) within his very bowels; that is, incorporated in the very nature of Christ. Proverbs 8:30-31; Psalms 40:8. And as Christ is said to be satisfied in soul when praising God for redemption-work, so all his people feel and enjoy an interest in all that belongs to Christ, and God's favor in Christ. Reader! pardon me, if I entreat you to pause and ponder over the very weighty doctrine contained in this short verse. Are you so satisfied with the full and complete salvation wrought out by the Lord Jesus as to seek no other, nay, to despise every other, and to praise God for this his unspeakable gift by his dear Son, with joyful lips? Oh! it is a blessed thing for the soul of a poor sinner to go to the throne of God in Jesus's name, and to tell God that the one sacrifice of his Son, and his obedience unto death, was, and is, fully equivalent to all the wants of Christ's church. Colossians 2:9-10.