This phrase, often repeated, makes clear God’s great mercy toward His children.

 It was because David was obedient to the Lord, keeping His commandments and statutes, that God extended great favors to him. This commendation of David is remarkable in view of David’s grievous errors, as in the matter of Uriah, the Hittite (2 Sam. 11) and in the act of numbering Israel (2 Sam. 24). Of both of these failings David sincerely repented, and through the provisions of grace was accepted as if he had never committed these infractions. Character is not finally determined by occasional deeds or misdeeds, but by the habitual tendency of the life.