Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
This psalm draws its materials from the fifty-seventh and sixtieth psalms, so I need not repeat what I have already expounded on those passages. The composer has taken portions from each and woven them here together.
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Commenting on Psalm 108:1-13
Faith that can grip the Lord when He seems to have cast us off, that is the real thing, not the easy trust of the pampered. David trusted when Israel lay under a cloud and the Lord hid His face. The casting off will not endure when faith holds so gloriously fast. No secondary agent is needed when we fall back upon God Himself; if He has promised it, He will do it, and our weakest hosts become mighty when the Lord marches forth with them.
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Prayer must be public-spirited: bear the Church's concerns before God's throne. Act faith upon His power and promise, with Him saying and doing are not two things, whatever they are with us. Take comfort in what God has secured to us, though we are not yet in possession of it.
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Commenting on Psalm 108:6-13