A Year Through God's Eyes

At the men's group on Tuesday morning, Kevin challenged me to go back and read this psalm again with the focus away from prosperity gospel that we would read it in today, and put it into more of a historical context with David finally ascending to Israel's throne (very LOTR-ish).
This psalm sounds like one of address over a crowd, similar to the tone of 20. Can you imagine a scene like that? A much anticipated (years in the making) event has finally come to pass and David steps out to address his people finally as their king. Not surprisingly , the first words out of his mouth are that it's not about him, but it's about God (v. 1). It's through His strength, guidance, and planning that David is where he is. David is also so happy that he doesn't even have words, all he can do is jump up and shout for joy because God didn't just hand him a portion of the kingdom like He had done in previous generations, but the whole nation, as well as all the other right desires of David's heart (v. 2).
David then runs down the checklist of all the things he wanted that the Lord provided him: Success? Check. Prosperity? Check. Crown of gold? Check. Preserve his life? Check. Victory? Check. Honor? Check. Splendor and majesty? Check and check. Eternal blessings? Check-a-roo. The joy of His presence? Check-o-la.
David closes off this list with reminding his people how they are able to sustain their success when their ancestors weren't successful. 1) A king who trusts in the Lord, and 2) "the unfailing love of the Most High will keep [them] from stumbling.
This is all followed up with v. 8-11, which in logic is how David and his men attained their success, but if I was to take it out of context is another one of those soil yourselves and dig your own grave type of passages. It's sometimes hard for our little human minds to reconcile the God who says "love your enemies" with the God that "consumes His enemies in His anger with fire that devours them," but God is big enough to know that it's two sides of the same character.
I think my favorite verse of this whole psalm is here at the end where David concludes this speech, basically with "Now let's party!" And better yet, it's a holy party, my favorite kind!