Psalm 62 - Sovereign Security

Chad Werkhoven
Sep 19, 2025
4 min read

Trusting in God's unfailing loves brings you true rest & blessings.

Psalm 62

For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

¹Truly my soul finds rest in God;

my salvation comes from him.

²Truly he is my rock and my salvation;

he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

³How long will you assault me?

Would all of you throw me down—

this leaning wall, this tottering fence?

⁴Surely they intend to topple me

from my lofty place;

they take delight in lies.

With their mouths they bless,

but in their hearts they curse.

⁵Yes, my soul, find rest in God;

my hope comes from him.

⁶Truly he is my rock and my salvation;

he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

⁷My salvation and my honor depend on God;

he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

⁸Trust in him at all times, you people;

pour out your hearts to him,

for God is our refuge.

⁹Surely the lowborn are but a breath,

the highborn are but a lie.

If weighed on a balance, they are nothing;

together they are only a breath.

¹⁰Do not trust in extortion

or put vain hope in stolen goods;

though your riches increase,

do not set your heart on them.

¹¹One thing God has spoken,

two things I have heard:

“Power belongs to you, God,

¹² and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;

and, “You reward everyone

according to what they have done.”

Canons of Dordt

Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election

Point 2 - Limited Atonement

Point 3 - Total Depravity

Point 4 - Irresistible Grace

Article 16: Regeneration’s Effect

However,
1. just as by the fall
  1. humans did not cease to be human,
  2. endowed with intellect and will,
2. and just as sin, which has spread through the whole human race,
  1. did not abolish the nature of the human race
  2. but distorted and spiritually killed it,
3. so also this divine grace of regeneration
  1. does not act in people as if they were blocks and stones;
  2. nor does it abolish the will and its properties or coerce a reluctant will by force,
  3. but
    1. spiritually revives, heals, reforms,
    2. and—in a manner at once pleasing and powerful—bends it back.
As a result,
1. a ready and sincere obedience of the Spirit now begins to prevail
2. where before the rebellion and resistance of the flesh were completely dominant.
3. In this the true and spiritual restoration and freedom of our will consists.
  1. Thus, if the marvelous Maker of every good thing were not dealing with us,
    1. we would have no hope of getting up from our fall by our own free choice,
    2. by which we plunged ourselves into ruin when still standing upright.

Summary

Today's Summary is a slightly modified repost from December 15, 2023

As we've seen several times this year, in Hebrew poetry, the meaning often comes in the middle. Such is the case here in Psalm 62, where v7 is sandwiched between two 8 line stanzas. Everything that you have that has any lasting value - your salvation and your honor - are completely dependent upon God, your mighty rock and refuge.

We have a tendency to think the world is more evil now than it's ever been, but that's probably not the case. Just like today, King David had enemies who delighted in telling lies as they attempted to topple him. He too was surrounded by hypocrites who bless with their mouths but in their hearts they curse.

If you want to live in such a way that you will not be shaken no matter what goes on around you, then trust in Him at all times... pour out your heart to Him, for God is our refuge.

In other words, as we've read so many times this year, fully depend on God's unfailing ḥěʹ·sěḏ love (v12). It's as you pour out your heart to Him that you will find rest (v5).

Dig Deeper

One of the primary reasons we've been using the Canons as our road map for reading the Bible this year is to build up our confidence and trust in our Savior, not just for our eternal salvation, but for His providence in every aspect of life. David's central claim in Psalm 62 is that his salvation and his honor - that is, every aspect of His life - completely depend on God; He is my mighty rock, my refuge.

H. C. Leupold notes: “There is scarcely another psalm that reveals such an absolute and undisturbed peace, in which confidence in God is so completely unshaken, and in which assurance is so strong that not even one single petition is voiced throughout the psalm.”

You'll notice that in the AAA prayer guide featured at the bottom of each day's post, there are suggestions for how to pray the day's passage back to God by Acknowledging who God is and the Aligning your life with God's will. But the final A, the one we often want to get to the quickest and which often dominates our prayers, where we Ask God for what we need is most often left blank.

Part of that reason is that each of our readers needs something different, so each person needs to fill that blank in themselves. But if you follow David's prayer pattern, which he demonstrates here and in so many other psalms, and emphasize acknowledging God and aligning your life with His will as you pray, you'll likely find you need to ask for less and less as you enjoy the confidence that comes from thoroughly understanding God's sovereign provision in your life.

AAA Prayer (About)

ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who is our rock and our salvation, He is our fortress, we will never be shaken;
ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you will find rest in God as you put your hope in Him alone;
ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: