First, look at how the psalmist begins and ends this Psalm with a focus on his personal relationship with God. The middle of the Psalm is addressed to others. He addresses God first with an appeal for an answer. Not just that he would be heard, but that he would be responded to. This appeal is natural because the psalmist knows that God is his righteousness. He has received full acceptance and love from God and he knows that his Father is there to listen and respond. How does he know this? Ultimately through the faith that God has given him to walk forward knowing his presence, and this through experiences like "relief when I was in distress." The second address here is to those who are shaming proper honor, loving vain words, and seeking after lies. He asks them why they do these evil deeds against him and God and then goes on to again show that he really trusts God to answer his call. The psalmist then addresses the righteous including himself with an admonition from God. He tells the righteous to be angry, and how do the righteous get angry? Righteously of course, in a way that is angry with things that offend God and in a way that is free from sin. It is good for the righteous to ponder their anger in a secluded place in silence before God. Righteous anger is always coupled with a trust that the Lord is their avenger. Right sacrifices follow along with the heart attitude that is essential for pleasing the Lord in ones anger. A sacrifice that is right to God is one that is done in faith, faith like that of Abraham. The Psalmist knows that a right sacrifice must be coupled with trust in God in order to be complete. His thought here could also be said, there is no right sacrifice without trust in God and there is no right trust in God without a right sacrifice. How did they know how to make a right sacrifice but by trust that the way God had given them to make sacrifices was true, and this was believed in faith because of trust that God himself is true. The psalmist living among people who are essentially like the people of any age experiences the general understanding of the way people think of God. One natural way to view God is that if he is powerful and good, why doesn't he show us some good. "Let us in on the pot of gold that you have." The psalmist responds to these ungodly requests by saying I want the light of your face to be upon me. It isn't that clear what he is referring to, but does it not seem that he is referring to God's loving favor as a judge. The light of God comes in and exposes and knows all of us, the light of God cleanses us from all unrighteousness, and the light of God sustains us in his good favor. This, to the one who wants God's favor above all, is better than abundance of grain and wine. I think that the main point of Psalm 4 is summed up in the last verse: Peace with God brings the only lasting peace in the midst of any worldly trouble.

Psalm 4:1