Homilist Psalm 118:21-24 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation.… I. A BLESSED CONSCIOUSNESS (ver. 21). 1. A grateful assurance of answered prayer. "Thou hast heard me." To know that God has heard me is, of all knowledge, the most, transporting. 2. A grateful assurance of personal salvation. "Art become my salvation." Not shall become, or will become, but "art" become. Salvation is a present blessing. "This is life eternal," etc. The consciousness that I am saved is indeed a blessed consciousness. II. A MARVELLOUS PROVIDENCE (ver. 22, 23). What man rejects, God accepts. 1. Man rejects insignificant, means with which to accomplish his chief ends. When man has a great plan to carry out, he looks out for the most gifted, the most mighty and skilful agents. Not so with the Almighty. By whom did He deliver Israel from Egyptian bondage? By Moses, a poor Hebrew exile. 2. Man despises the very agents whom God employs. This was pre-eminently the case with Christ. "He was despised and rejected of men." Yet He was employed in a work of transcendent greatness. III. A JOYOUS DAY (ver. 24). Man has to create his own Sabbaths, and when they come to him, he feels the Lord hath made them, and he "will rejoice and be glad in it." (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.WEB: I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation. |
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