Psalm 91:14-16 Because he has set his love on me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.… I. WHAT GOD SAYS OF HIM. 1. "He knows My name." (1) As a sin-hating, sin-avenging God! and this knowledge was a means of leading him to a deep sense of his own personal corruption, guilt, and danger as a sinner. (2) As concentrated in the name of Jesus, who "shall save His people from their sins." 2. "He hath set his love upon Me." In the love of a Divinely-illuminated believer there is — (1) Gratitude. (2) Admiration. (3) Delightful complacency. 3. "He shall call upon Me." "A holy heart," says Leighton, "is the temple of God, and therefore must be a house of prayer." II. WHAT GOD SAYS TO HIM. 1. There are some important truths implied. Though persons may be the objects of Divine favour, yet they are not exempt from trials and crosses of various kinds. Though the guilt of sin be taken away, there remains some of the effects of it, which God's people feel while in the body; and though they are sinners saved by grace, yet they are still on probation for eternity, and exposed to temptations, and pains, and sufferings, and to death itself. 2. There are some important truths expressed. The Lord's eye of infinite love is always fixed upon His suffering children; His ear of infinite love is wakefully attentive to their cry; His hand of infinite love is exerted to support them under their troubles, and finally to exalt them above them. (W. Dawson.) Parallel Verses KJV: Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. |
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