Charles Spurgeon: Psalm 71
Verse 2. Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape.
Be true, O God, to Your word. It is a righteous thing in You to keep
the promises which You have made to Your servants. I have trusted You,
and You will not be unrighteous to forget my faith.
I am taken as in a net, but You can liberate me from the malice of my
persecutors. Incline Your ear unto me, and save me. Stoop to my
feebleness, and hear my faint whispers; be gracious to my infirmities,
and smile upon me: I ask salvation; listen to my petitions, and save me.
Like one wounded and left for dead by my enemies, I need You to bend
over me and bind up my wounds. These mercies are asked on the plea of
faith, and they cannot, therefore, be denied.
Verse 3. Be thou my strong habitation. Permit me to
enter into You, and be as much at home as a man in his own house, and
then let me remain in You as my settled abode.
Whereas foes molest me, I need a dwelling framed and bulwarked, to
sustain a siege and resist the attacks of armies; let, then, Your
omnipotence secure me, and be as a fortress unto me.
Here we see a weak man, but he is in a strong habitation; his
security rests upon the tower in which he hides, and is not placed in
jeopardy through his personal feebleness.
Whereunto I may continually resort. Fast shut is this castle against
all adversaries, its gates they cannot burst open; the drawbridge is up,
the portcullis is down, the bars are fast in their places; but, there
is a secret door, by which friends of the great Lord can enter at all
hours of the day or night, as often as ever they please.
There is never an hour when it is unlawful to pray. Mercy's gates
stand wide open, and shall do so, till, at the last, the Master of the
house has risen up and shut the door. Believers find their God to be
their habitation, strong and accessible, and this is for them a
sufficient remedy for all the ills of their mortal life.
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