To Be Humble, Calm & Hopeful

We have here in this passage a prayer of David, in which he declares his sincere intentions in regard to following the Lord; that even when there were some people around him who were thinking that he was selfishly ambitious, and perhaps they were also thinking that he desired to become somebody great, that he was not thinking that way. He confesses in the presence of God, that he had examined himself, and that he knew that he was not proud. Sometimes this is something that we need to do as well; to examine ourselves, to see if we have right motives for the things that we think and say and do. And isn't it good to know that, here at the Lord's table, we find that this is just the place to do that. There are, here in these three verses, three declarations which David makes. Two of them concern humility and how it is learned, and the third is an exhortation to all Israel that they should hope in the Lord. Let's take them in that order.