I. This Psalm is a hymn concerning the kingdom of Christ and of God. It tells us something of the government which Christ has been exercising over the world ever since the beginning of it, and which He is exercising over this world now. "Be still, and know that I am God" that I, not you, will be exalted among the nations; that I, not you, will be exalted in the earth.
II. Those who forget that they are in Christ's kingdom Christ does not go out of His way to punish. They simply punish themselves. They earn their own ruin by the very laws of nature.
III. If you wish to prosper on the earth, let God be in all your thoughts. Remember that the Lord is on your right hand; and then, and then alone, will you not be moved, either to terror or to sin, by any of the chances and changes of this mortal life. "He that believeth," saith the prophet, "shall not make haste" shall not hurry himself into folly, and disappointment, and shame.
C. Kingsley, All Saints' Day, and Other Sermons,p. 200.
References: Psalms 46:1. Spurgeon, Evening by Evening,p. 124.Psalms 46:1; Psalms 46:2. C. Kingsley, The Water of Life,p. 228; H. Jones, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxv., p. 314.Psalms 46:4. D. Jones, Ibid.,vol. xviii., p. 276.