God and His grace are again in view, emphasized now by all that David knew of himself and his family. And this is our resource. The cry, "Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" is answered by, "I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord." God Himself is our resource in all, our Saviour, our Deliverer, our Refuge.

The "not so" speaks of our failure and folly and sin, and it is written large and plain, so that the runner may read, over everything "under the sun."

The "yet he" turns our thoughts to One whose every purpose will be made good in its own time. Man's failure will but exalt God's faithfulness.

"Yet He hath made with me." Knowing me altogether and all that I am and have proved myself to be, times without number, "yet He" hath taken me up and made with me "a covenant ordered in all things and sure." Everything has been arranged by Him, every difficulty has been considered, every emergency provided for. All is ordered, all is sure, for all is of God Himself, and all will be made good in Christ.

It is this which the apostle delights in, as he writes the triumphant words in 2 Corinthians 2, "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ… was not yea and nay, but in Him was yea. For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts" (vers. 19-22). All in Christ is yea, and all in Him Amen, and we are being more and more firmly attached to Christ by the Holy Spirit's ministry. God has sealed us in view of the day of redemption, He has anointed us to give us intelligence in His things, and He has given the earnest, the foretaste, of the future glory in our hearts already. Blessed be His glorious name forever.

Well may we exclaim with the sweet singer, "This is all my salvation and all my desire." He turns his eyes upon the future. By the power of the Spirit he is in the light of the coming glory. He sees, as Abraham saw, Christ's day, and is glad. He looks for nothing from himself or from his house. He hides himself in the covenant faithfulness of God, in Christ.

"Although He make it not to grow." For the hour when all should be made good David must wait-the growing day had not yet dawned. But "though it tarry, wait for it." "He that cometh will come and will not delay." And David shall yet see it and rejoice.

May the Lord direct our hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ, and give us in the little while, the very little while, until the Lord's return, to be happy in doing His will in holy confidence in Himself, until every jot and tittle of His purposes of grace and goodness are established at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Inglis Fleming