Bellarmine on Psalm LXII: Verse 7

Verse 7

If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning: because thou hast been my helper.

Si memor fui tui super stratum meum, in matutinis meditabor in te, quia fuisti adjutor meus.

He shows that in this life too he will remember God and His gifts, not only in Heaven when, filled with marrow, he will praise God with joyful lips. “If,” he says, “I have remembered thee” in the depths of the night, while I still lay “upon my bed,” much more will I do this when rising in the morning and during the daytime, “I will meditate on thee,” that is, I will contemplate and meditate upon Thy power and Thy glory: “Because,” thou always “hast been my helper,” that is, I will always remember Thee in thanksgiving because Thou hast never forgotten me when I needed help and protection. St. Augustine drew from these lines a most useful lesson: if someone wishes to remember God in the midst of his work, and to keep love and fear (of the Lord) ever before his eyes, what is needed is to remember God whilst in bed, that is, peacefully in a quiet manner, and thus he may meditate upon His gifts 

and promises. For a great many men are busy in their work and if they do not have (time for) God, because they do not have time for breaks or rest in which to gather their thoughts, they miss out on meditation of heavenly things. A few Latin codices have Sic memor fui / Thus I have remembered; but our reading is correct: Si memor fui / If I have remembered, since this is what the Hebrew codices have and (is the reading of) the Holy Fathers Hilary and Augustine.

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.