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.… Now, that is not a state to be won and kept without much vigorous, conscious effort. The nuts in a machine work loose; the knots in a rope "come untied," as the children say. The hand that clasps anything, by slow and imperceptible degrees loses muscular contraction, and the grip of the fingers become slacker. Our minds and affections and wills have that same tendency to slacken their hold of what they grasp. Unless we tighten up the machine it will work loose, and unless we make conscious efforts to keep ourselves in touch with God, His hand will slip out of ours before we know that it is gone, and we shall fancy that we feel the impressions of the fingers long after they have been taken away from our neglectant palms. (A. Maclaren, D. D.) 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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