Homilist 2 Samuel 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. I. THE "WAY" HE PRESCRIBES IS "PERFECT." He prescribes a way, a course of action, for all the creatures He has made, animate and inanimate, rational and irrational. The stars, the oceans, insects, brutes, and souls of every kind, from the least to the greatest, have each their "way" marked out, and the highest science attests that the way is "perfect." But the course or the way which is prescribed for man is what the writer refers to. 1. The way which is prescribed for our moral conduct is "perfect." 2. The way that is prescribed for our spiritual restoration is "perfect." What is the way? Here it is: "What the law could not do," etc.; "God so loved the world," etc. Faith in Christ is the prescribed way. This way is "perfect" in its wisdom; it is in every way adapted ."Perfect" in its justice; it honours the righteousness of God. "Perfect" in its sufficiency; it is adequate to the needs of each man, and all. II. THE WAY HE PURSUES IS "PERFECT." God has a method of action. He acts not by caprice or impulse, but by a settled eternal plan. 1. His method of procedure is "perfect" in conception. We have not the full draft of this plan — an infinitesimal section only comes under our eye. The architect of the great building presents you with a whole plan, and you may understand it and see the superstructure on the paper. Thus God has not acted; and if He had given us the whole plan we could not have scanned the millionth part. What we see, however, we feel to be "perfect." 2. His method of procedure is "perfect in execution." What His infinite benevolence promoted and His infinite wisdom conceived, His almightiness carries out with almost perfection. A conviction of the perfection of God's way(1) Is essential to our well-being. Without this we cannot supremely love and trust Him. (2) Is the most attainable of beliefs. Our reason,, conscience, Bible, observation, and experience all concur in urging on the soul this the grandest of all conclusions. (3) Must flash on every sinner's nature sooner or later. If not here in the day of grace, yonder in the period of retribution. This conviction flashing on the corrupt soul in eternity, is the hell of the lost. The soul burns with anguish as it rolls and rolls in the great thought, "As for God, His ways are perfect." (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. |
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