We died and our life is hid with God

Ps 60 1 You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us; you have been angry--now restore us!2 You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking.3 You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.4 But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner to be unfurled against the bow. "Selah"5 Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered.6 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth.7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.8 Moab is my washbasin, upon Edom I toss my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph."9 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?10 Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us and no longer go out with our armies?11 Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless12 With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.

This Psalm teaches that salvation is anti intuitive to the mind and heart of man.  We are always guilty of making salvation harder than it is. The hardest lesson to learn in our christian lives is not to trust in the things that are easy to trust in. The hardest lesson to learn is to trust in things that do not seem to be important in the religious culture. Why did God reject the nation of Israel? Because they turned away from His law. But if the answer is to turn back to His law then the Psalmist would not end the Psalm by saying "the help of man is worthless." 

The point is that God burst forth upon the nation. In other words God acted apart from any other will or power in rejecting Israel. This is why the Psalmist concludes that there is no hope of being delivered if man is required to change. The hardest truth to learn is that when we exalt man we turn Gods covenant into something that is not valuable. When any man rises as to be powerful it leads to breaking Gods covenant. You see the simplest success in the gospel is that it is already successful by our not adding to it. 

The point that this Psalm is teaching is that we are unable to save ourselves. We fail to rise up to the level of success that is required to deliver ourselves. This is the point that in order for us to live we must die. This is why the Psalmist ends the Psalm with acknowledging that the only hope of being saved is in God. The cry that the help of man is worthless is more than acknowledgement that man is powerless to restore Israel but it is a wish that God would give the nation an understanding trust in anything other than God must die. This is how we live. We are always freeing ourselves from the rudiment principles of this world by accepting the teaching or the counsel in the context of "the death of the importance" of the person who is teaching these truths. The point is that the only power in the real support of the soul is in the work that has already been accomplished by Christ. So we are all vessels of holding up the weak and rescuing them by giving. 

This Psalm teaches that there is no principle of importance in thinking that God is responding to rebellion. But it is teaching that God displays His free acts in the judgement. God preordains whatsoever comes to pass. Look at the things that God does. He actually not only judged the nation but He provided the sedative so that they could not be sensible enough to return to their first love. This is to show that all change that happens in society is left to Gods free choice. In this men stray from God because they are blind to His salvation. God acts to provide them with a sedative to relieve their helpless suffering.  As you can see this Psalm is teaching that there is no remedy unless all things die. This is why we are given the words of the curses to mediate on because we are always trying to deliver ourselves without coming to the mystery of life and death.