Psalms 20:1

Psalms 20:1

I. The God of Jacob tells us, by the very name, that He is a God who is not deterred by a great transgression, or by great proneness to transgression, from constituting Himself the Guide to our pilgrim life.

II. The God of Jacob must be a God who can bear to inflict very stern chastisement on His children, and to train His pilgrims in a very hard, sharp school of discipline, without forfeiting the name of their merciful and loving God. This thought has two suggestions. (1) It expounds the thoroughness of the Divine method. (2) Let the name of the God of Jacob assure you that there is no extremity in which you have a right to cry, "The Lord hath forsaken me; my God has forgotten me."

III. The God of Jacob is the God who will bring the pilgrims home.

J. Baldwin Brown, The Sunday Afternoon,p. 45 (see also p. 35).

References: Psalms 20:1 J. Irons, Thursday Penny Pulpit,vol. vii., p. 1; J. M. Neale, Sermons on Passages from the Psalms,p. 9. Psalms 20:1; Psalms 20:2. Preacher's Monthly,vol. ii., p. 414.Psalms 20:2. W. M. Taylor, Old Testament Outlines,p. 102.Psalms 20:5. Homiletic Magazine,vol. vi., p. 16; D. Burns, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xiii., p. 81.