Psalms 5:7

‘But as for me, in the multitude of your lovingkindness I will come into your house,

In your fear I will worship towards your holy temple.'

His own entry before God rests in his confidence in God's overwhelming lovingkindness (‘warm covenant love' - chesed), His benevolence and goodness, and his own reverent awe and fear. He comes aware of the greatness and holiness of God, but also aware of His grace and mercy revealed through the covenant between God and His people, a covenant which has provided a way of forgiveness for all sin through the shedding of blood. And he worships (‘prostrates himself before') God with proper respect and due deference.

This is why we too can come with such confidence. It is not because we are such good people, but because we come to One Who loved us and gave Himself for us, and it is in Him that we find a welcome. It is because He has made a new and living way for us through His flesh (Hebrews 10:20), so that we can come through Him.

He mentions God's house and God's temple. While mention of these may suggest that he lives at the time of what we know of as the temple, that need not be so. The phrase ‘God's house' is equally used of the tabernacle (Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26; Deuteronomy 23:18; Joshua 6:24; 1Sa 1:24; 1 Samuel 3:15; see also 2 Samuel 12:20) and so is God's ‘temple' (1 Samuel 1:9; 1 Samuel 3:3). For God dwells in house, temple and tent without regard (Psalms 27:4). In view of the fact that Israel did not have a temple until the time of Solomon, to describe the tabernacle as God's ‘temple' would be natural, as a shadow of the heavenly temple (Psalms 11:4; Psalms 18:6), and in contrast with the temples of the nations. The words are all synonyms for God's earthly dwellingplace. However, note that he worships ‘in God's house' but ‘towards His holy temple'. Thus he may be thinking of the house as earthly and the temple as heavenly (see 1 Kings 8:30). Or the latter phrase may simply refer to the inner sanctuary