60:1-3 Discipline is never an easy cup to drink or process to endure. But it cannot be avoided as a child of God. In several places, including Revelation 3:19, God explains that He disciplines us because He loves us. His correction is meant to help us; we learn better behavior from His disapproval of poor behavior.
Thankfully, like the Psalmist we can pray for restoration. We cannot accept the process of betterment and know that God's mercy will forgive and guide us.
60:4-5 Those who revere God receive a banner; we march with His holy army. Even though we made missteps, His guidance (and our adherence to it) keeps us ultimately where we need to be.
60:6-8 God has a plan for every region and person on the earth. The claims and divisions He makes are definite and inevitable.
60:9-12 Most of us learn the hard way that any advice separate from God's will is indeed useless. Through God we will do valiantly, as the verse says, but away from Him we consistently fail. Fail in hope and success and peace. He is our provision of those things and therefore without Him, we are deficient of those things.
