Psalms 27:9. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger:
The sharpest trial a Christian can know is to be forsaken of his God. As the very pith of the agony of Christ upon the gross lay in his being deserted by his Father, so the extremity of a believer’s anguish is found when he also has to cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? "Send us any other trial that thou wilt, O Lord; but let us never lose the light of thy countenance! We are rich in poverty, we are strong in weakness, we are healthful in sickness, we are living even in death while we have our God with us; but if our Lord shall once hide his face from us, we are in trouble indeed.
Psalms 27:9. Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Beloved brethren and sisters in Christ, use your past experience to encourage you for the present; draw arguments from your past experience to use with God in prayer, even as David did: "Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my soul was burdened with sin, thou wast my Helper. Thou didst enable me to look to Christ when I lost friend after friend, when I passed through fierce conflicts with the devil; when I was sick, and health and strength failed me, thou wast my Helper." Many of you can thus look back upon a long life, and say to God of it all, "Thou hast been my Helper;" and this gives you a foothold in your wrestling with the great Angel of the Covenant; so mind that you grasp him firmly, and say, "Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms 27:9. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger:
The sharpest trial a Christian can know is to be forsaken of his God. As the very pith of the agony of Christ upon the gross lay in his being deserted by his Father, so the extremity of a believer’s anguish is found when he also has to cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? "Send us any other trial that thou wilt, O Lord; but let us never lose the light of thy countenance! We are rich in poverty, we are strong in weakness, we are healthful in sickness, we are living even in death while we have our God with us; but if our Lord shall once hide his face from us, we are in trouble indeed.
Psalms 27:9. Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Beloved brethren and sisters in Christ, use your past experience to encourage you for the present; draw arguments from your past experience to use with God in prayer, even as David did: "Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my soul was burdened with sin, thou wast my Helper. Thou didst enable me to look to Christ when I lost friend after friend, when I passed through fierce conflicts with the devil; when I was sick, and health and strength failed me, thou wast my Helper." Many of you can thus look back upon a long life, and say to God of it all, "Thou hast been my Helper;" and this gives you a foothold in your wrestling with the great Angel of the Covenant; so mind that you grasp him firmly, and say, "Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.