2. In a way of exultation and triumph —
[" Behold, God is my salvation ! " says the believing soul. How wonderful a truth ! Methinks, if it were not uttered by the voice of inspiration, one would be almost ready to call it blasphemy. What! Is God, even the Most High God, our salvation ? Yes ; and not our Saviour only, but salvation itself; inasmuch as He dwells in us, and abides in us, and " works all our works in us." Hence the believing soul further adds, " The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; He also is become my salvation." This is a blessing not future, but present; not hoped for, but actually possessed. The Lord God, Almighty himself has undertaken for us. Yes, our Saviour is no other than the Deity incarnate, " God with us," " God manifest in the flesh," and " purchasing the Church with his own blood." Every thing that was necessary for our reconcilia- tion with God, He wrought for us on the cross : and every thing that is necessary to make us meet for our inheritance He works in us, by his Holy Spirit: so that, whilst he is "our strength, he is also our song" from day to day.
I ask then. Is here no cause to praise our God? The won- der is, that any person, thus favoured, can find time for any other employment, or have any inclination to utter a word which has not a direct reference to these mercies.]
In our text, we further see, lit. What is that frame of mind with which our praise should ever be accompanied —
Many will be the trials of a Christian, notwith- standing all that he is privileged to enjoy —