Psalms 43

Psalms 43:3  
Send forth Your light and Your truth; They will lead me; They will bring me to Your holy mountain and to Your tabernacles.

43:4  
And I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; And I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

light, alter:

Light and truth (reality) are not separate things but are two aspects of one thing.

Truth is the shining of light, and light is the source of truth (1 John 1:5-6 and note 66, final par.). When the light shines on us, we receive the truth, the reality, and when we go to God in fellowship, we are in the light.

According to this verse the divine light and the divine truth lead God’s captive saints to God’s holy mountain and His tabernacles, which typify the local churches.

Both light and truth are in the church (1 Tim. 3:15)

The psalmists who wrote Psa. 42 — 44 were lovers of God in their captivity (42:6). They were panting for God, thirsting for God (42:1-2), and desiring to return to Jerusalem, to go to Mount Zion to reach the altar. Then they could enter into the temple to meet God their exceeding joy.

This is why they prayed that God would give them the light and the truth (v. 3) that they might know how to be released from their captivity and return to God’s dwelling place.

Psalms 40

Psalms 40:1  
I waited patiently on Jehovah, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.

40:2  
Then He brought me up out of a pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; And He set my feet upon a rock, establishing my steps.

40:3  
Then He put a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God. Many see it and fear, and they trust in Jehovah

40:16 
May all those who seek You be glad and rejoice in You; May those who love Your salvation say continually, may Jehovah be magnified!

40:17 
But I am poor and needy; May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my Deliverer; O my God, do not delay

Psalms 32

Psalms 32:5  
I acknowledged my sin to You,  and I did not cover my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah.  Then You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Psalms 32:7  
You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with the ringing shouts of deliverance. Selah

In the beginning of this psalm David confessed his sins (vv. 1-5), but at the end he justified himself as righteous and upright in heart. In reality, apart from Christ no one is righteous and upright in heart (Rom. 3:10; Jer. 17:9).

God’s forgiving our sins and not imputing iniquity to us are based on Christ’s redemption (Eph. 1:7). Apart from Christ’s redemption the righteous God cannot forgive our sins (Heb. 9:22).

David’s writing here is that of a person who tried to keep the law apart from Christ.

In His economy God does not want us to endeavor to keep the law. He wants us to live Christ, the God-man, that He may be magnified (Phil. 1:19-21a). To live Christ in order to magnify Him is to enjoy Him.