Psalm 21:5 English Standard Version (ESV) His glory is great through your salvation; splendor and majesty you bestow on him.

This is a psalm written by King David. It appears that King David is speaking in the third person. If it were not written in the third person it would sound like this,

His glory is great through my salvation; splendor and majesty I bestow on him.

That doesn’t ring true to us who know the third person of the Trinity. It should sound more like this.

His glory is great through God’s salvation of His children; splendor and majesty God bestows on Christ.

From David’s point of view he is the anointed king of Israel speaking about and for the King of Glory. The third person is the only way that makes sense to David. Here we are on this side of the Cross and the third person is the Holy Spirit in us glorifying Christ.

There was another verse in this psalm that struck me as important as it ended with Selah, that musical instruction for a thoughtful pause.

Psalm 21:2 English Standard Version (ESV) You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

Knowing Christ as we do what was the desire of His heart and what did He ask?

“Select for me the bride of Your choosing Father.”

That can be a daunting task given we are God’s chosen. We have to look at what He did since choosing us. He has given us of Himself in the third person to glorify His Son through us.

Proverbs 12:4a English Standard Version (ESV) An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,

The third person indwelling in us makes it possible for us to be that excellent bride.