Psalm 3:8

Salvation belongs to the Lord. Your blessing is on Your people. Selah
Psalm 3:8 Modern English Version (MEV)
 
Our hope is in the Lord. Our ONLY hope is in the Lord. How often do we hear similar expressions being spoken by Christians? How often do we use similar expressions ourselves? Yet, why is it that we mostly live and act as if we don't believe it? The simple truth is, in today's self-reliant world, it's virtually impossible to be completely reliant on God, at least in a worldly sense. We have a full array of insurance plans, retirement plans, warranties and money back guarantees. Who needs God? We do, obviously. We can't conquer death and we certainly can't save ourselves. For the most part we've pretty much made a mess of everything we've touched. People need the Lord. We need the Lord. Salvation, life and liberation come from God and God alone.
 
From Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible:
 
Salvation belongeth unto the Lord - That is, it pertains to God alone to save. The psalmist had no expectation of saving himself; he had no confidence in the unaided prowess of his own arm. If he was to be saved he felt that it was to be only by God, and the praise of this was to be given to Him. The particular reference here is to temporal deliverance, or deliverance from the dangers which surrounded him then; but the declaration is as true of spiritual deliverance - of the salvation of the soul - as it is of deliverance from temporal danger. In both cases it is true that God only saves, and that all the praise is due to him.
 
Thy blessing is upon thy people - Or perhaps, rather, “thy blessing be upon thy people,” regarding this as a “prayer” rather than an “affirmation.” It is true, indeed, as an affirmation (compare Psa_2:12); but it accords better with the connection here, and is a more appropriate conclusion of the psalm to regard it as a petition, expressing an earnest desire that the blessing of God might ever rest upon his own people. Then the thoughts of the psalmist are turned away from his own perils to the condition of others; from his individual case to that of the Church at large; and he prays that all others may find the same favors from God which he had so richly enjoyed, and which he hoped still to enjoy. It is one of the characteristics of true piety thus to turn from our own condition to that of others, and to desire that what we enjoy may be partaken of by the people of God everywhere.