“When God’s children prosper one way, they are generally tried another, for few of us can bear unmingled prosperity.
There is a constant revolution; many who are in the dust today shall be highly elevated tomorrow; while those who are now aloft shall soon grind the earth.
Prosperity had evidently turned the Psalmist’s head, or he would not have been so self-confident. He stood by grace, and yet forgot himself, and so met with a fall.
Reader, is there not much of the same proud stuff in all our hearts?
Let us beware lest the fumes of intoxicating success get into our brains and make fools of us also.”
–Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Psalms 27-57, vol. 2 (London; Edinburgh; New York: Marshall Brothers, n.d.), 43, 45. Spurgeon is commenting on Psalm 30.
