14b I WILL SET HIM ON HIGH: BECAUSE HE HATH KNOWN MY NAME.
Lord, if I really love You, You will set me on HIGH in a place of peace and joy, above dangers and fear, in a place that is safe from the "enemy" -INACCESSIBLE!
Hallelujah! You will set me on high BECAUSE I have known Your NAME. Yes, this reminds me of all my "Names of God" Testimonies that I did this past summer. What a blessed study it was to meditate on Your character and all the ways You have "MET" me in the past! By Your grace I have KNOWN Your NAME, so set me on HIGH!
I love what Spurgeon says also, "None abideth in intimate fellowship with God unless they possess a warm affection towards God, and an intelligent trust in him; these gifts of grace are precious in Jehovah's eyes, and wherever he sees them he smiles upon them. How
elevated is the standing which the Lord gives to the believer. We ought to covet it right earnestly. If we climb on high it may be dangerous, but if God sets us there it is glorious."
15 HE SHALL CALL UPON ME, AND I WILL ANSWER HIM: I WILL BE WITH HIM IN TROUBLE; I WILL DELIVER HIM, AND HONOUR HIM.
William Dawson says, "... God speaks and acts like a tender-hearted mother towards a sickly child. When the child is in perfect health she can leave it in the hands of a nurse; but when it is sick she will attend it herself; she will say to the nurse, 'You may attend a while to some other business, I will watch over the child myself.' She hears the slightest moan; she flies to the cradle; she takes it in her arms; she kisses its lips, and drops a tear upon its face, and
asks, 'What can I do for thee, my child? How can I relieve thy pain and soften thy sufferings? Don't weep and break my heart; it is thy mother's arms that are around thee; it is thy mother's lap on which thou art laid; it is thy mother's voice that speaks to thee; it is
thy mother that is with thee; fear not.' So You speak to Your afflicted children, 'I will be with You in trouble.' No mother can equally sympathize with her suffering child; as You do with your suffering people. No! could all the love that ever dwelt in all the mothers' hearts that ever existed, be united in one mother's heart, and fixed on her only child, it would no more bear a comparison with Your love...to Your people than the summer midnight glowworm is to be compared to the summer mid-day sun.
O that delightful sentence 'I will be with him in trouble.' At other times You will leave Your children in the hands of angels: 'You will give them charge over us in all our ways; they bear us up lest at any time we dash our feet against a stone.' But when we are in trouble You will say to the angels, 'Stand aside, I will take care of them myself. I will be with them in trouble'. So You speak to Your people: 'When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. 'When languishing in sickness, You will make
my bed, and my pillow; when traveling through the valley of the shadow of death, You will be with me, and enable me to sing, 'I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me'. Thus You are with me and as my physician and nurse, in pain and sickness; as my gude in difficulty; my ease in pain; and as my life in death." (Personalized by me.)
Yes, Lord, I shall call upon You, and You will answer me. You will say to me, "I love you, Sherry. You are my own little one. I WILL be with you in trouble." Yes, Lord, You will deliver me and honour me with Your presence. I will truly be HONOURED if others see that You
are holding me tight and that I have no fear. Please, Lord, give me grace to be a witness for You and to show forth Your Almighty power any and every time I am in TROUBLE. Thank-You, Lord, for this wonderful promise!
16 WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY HIM, AND SHEW HIM MY SALVATION.
YOU WILL SATISFY me completely! YOU are ALL I need! You are more than enough! Is this a personal promise for a long ,physical life on this earth, a promise of many years before physical death? Surely, whether it is or not, this verse is still true because YOU will satisfy me with FOREVER LIFE! You are even now making me to experience and to enjoy Your salvation!
Your SALVATION in my life comes to me NOW, YOUR PRESENCE OF LOVE AND DELIVERANCE FROM FEAR!
That's really what this Psalm is all about, isn't it, Lord?
1) That I will know Your love and feel Your Presence
2) That I will not be afraid
Amen!
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