“Wait, I say, on the Lord.”
Psalms 27
We shall now read that very choice experimental song
Psa_27:2
Past experience is a great help to faith. If fierce and powerful enemies have been defeated before, we need not fear now.
Psa_27:4
Divided aims tend to distraction, weakness, disappointment. The man of one book is eminent, the man of one pursuit is successful. Let all our affections be bound up in one affection, and that affection set upon heavenly things.
David desired above all things to be one of the household of God, a home-born child, living at home with his Father. This is our dearest wish, only we extend it to those days of our immortal life which have not yet dawned. We pine for our Fathers house above, the home of our souls; if we may but dwell there for ever, we care but little for the goods or ills of this poor life.
What a day will that be when every faithful follower of Jesus shall behold “the King in his beauty.” Oh, for that infinitely blessed vision!
Psa_27:5
In the pavilion of sovereignly, the holy place of sacrifice, and the rock of divine immutability we dwell securely.
Psa_27:6
To sing in time of trouble is faith’s glory. We need not wait till full deliverance comes, but even while our foes surround us we may shout the victory, for it is sure.
Psa_27:8
If we would have the Lord hear our voice, we must be careful to respond to His voice. The true heart should echo the will of God, as the rocks among the Alps repeat, in sweetest music, the notes of the peasant’s horn.
Psa_27:9
A prayer for the future, and an inference from the past. If the Lord had meant to leave us, why did he begin with us?
Psa_27:10
These dear relations will be the last to desert me; but if the milk of human kindness should dry up even from their breasts, there is a Father who never forgets. Some of the greatest of the saints have been cast out by their families, and persecuted for righteousness’ sake.
Psa_27:11
These will entrap us if they can, but the way of simple honesty is safe from their rage. It is wonderful to observe how honest simplicity baffles and outwits the craftiness of wickedness.
Psa_27:13
We must believe to see, not see to believe; we must stay our soul’s hunger with foretastes of the Lord’s eternal goodness, which shall soon be our feast and our song.
Psa_27:14
David, in the words “I say,” sets his own private seal to the word which, as an inspired man, he had been moved to write. At this moment he says to us as a family,
“Wait, I say, on the Lord.”
The Lord of glory is my light,
And my salvation too;
God is my strength, nor will I fear
What all my foes can do.
When troubles rise, and storms appear,
In him his children hide:
God has a strong pavilion, where
He makes my soul abide.
Psalms 27
We shall now read that very choice experimental song
Psa_27:2
Past experience is a great help to faith. If fierce and powerful enemies have been defeated before, we need not fear now.
Psa_27:4
Divided aims tend to distraction, weakness, disappointment. The man of one book is eminent, the man of one pursuit is successful. Let all our affections be bound up in one affection, and that affection set upon heavenly things.
David desired above all things to be one of the household of God, a home-born child, living at home with his Father. This is our dearest wish, only we extend it to those days of our immortal life which have not yet dawned. We pine for our Fathers house above, the home of our souls; if we may but dwell there for ever, we care but little for the goods or ills of this poor life.
What a day will that be when every faithful follower of Jesus shall behold “the King in his beauty.” Oh, for that infinitely blessed vision!
Psa_27:5
In the pavilion of sovereignly, the holy place of sacrifice, and the rock of divine immutability we dwell securely.
Psa_27:6
To sing in time of trouble is faith’s glory. We need not wait till full deliverance comes, but even while our foes surround us we may shout the victory, for it is sure.
Psa_27:8
If we would have the Lord hear our voice, we must be careful to respond to His voice. The true heart should echo the will of God, as the rocks among the Alps repeat, in sweetest music, the notes of the peasant’s horn.
Psa_27:9
A prayer for the future, and an inference from the past. If the Lord had meant to leave us, why did he begin with us?
Psa_27:10
These dear relations will be the last to desert me; but if the milk of human kindness should dry up even from their breasts, there is a Father who never forgets. Some of the greatest of the saints have been cast out by their families, and persecuted for righteousness’ sake.
Psa_27:11
These will entrap us if they can, but the way of simple honesty is safe from their rage. It is wonderful to observe how honest simplicity baffles and outwits the craftiness of wickedness.
Psa_27:13
We must believe to see, not see to believe; we must stay our soul’s hunger with foretastes of the Lord’s eternal goodness, which shall soon be our feast and our song.
Psa_27:14
David, in the words “I say,” sets his own private seal to the word which, as an inspired man, he had been moved to write. At this moment he says to us as a family,
“Wait, I say, on the Lord.”
The Lord of glory is my light,
And my salvation too;
God is my strength, nor will I fear
What all my foes can do.
When troubles rise, and storms appear,
In him his children hide:
God has a strong pavilion, where
He makes my soul abide.
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