Psalms 18

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM XVIII.—How close and marvellous is the connection between Christ and his people, that the same relations of God, the same words and works of God, and exercises towards God! will apply to both! Let Jesus then be at once my Saviour, my Forerunner, and my Pattern. Pleasant and profitable is God to the souls that find him. He is their ALL and IN ALL! Sure is their help in time of need who trust in and love him! though God may take the most awful manner to answer the prayers of his people in delivering them out of their distress, and exalting them to safety and joy. Those deliverances demand the most solemn and hearty thanksgivings, which are from great and imminent danger, 7 - and in exact answer to earnest prayers, and which are granted by wonderful appearances, in the midst of great difficulties, and of great and lasting good fruits. Happy are they who, interested in Jesus’ righteousness, have their corruptions subdued by his grace, and are by his Spirit enabled to conquer every spiritual foe! God fights for them! who can be against them! What knowledge and skill—what strength—what activity—what courage—what protection—what success and victory—what an high throne—is allotted them by the living, the faithful, the powerful, and unparalleled, God of their salvation! With firm faith may such expect the Lord’s perfecting all that grace and glory which concerns them