Psalms 138:8

REFLECTIONS

MY soul! learn a lesson this day from David; and looking up to God the Spirit to enable thee to carry what thou hast learned into continual practice, determine from henceforth to praise thy God and Saviour in the presence of all men. Make it thy uniform practice to know nothing among men, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Let all the world know whose thou art, and to whom thou dust belong. Be not ashamed to have it said, Jesus hath bought thee with his blood; but glorify him in thy body, and in thy spirit, which are his. And oh thou blessed Saviour, give me the same confidence as thy servant David had. Wherefore should Old Testament saints, who saw thy day but afar off, have lived more by faith upon thee, than New Testament believers, who have seen thy redemption-work completed? Let it make me blush, if their faith exceeds mine. And! thou holy Father! hath it pleased thee to magnify thy Word above all thy name! cause me then, by the sweet influences of thy Holy Spirit, to glorify thee in Jesus above all. Oh! for grace to have such views of Jesus as the Father hath set forth in his holy word; and so to live upon Jesus, and trust in Jesus, that with the apostle I may daily sing the song of holy confidence and joy; crying out, Now thanks be unto God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ.