Psalms 37:25-30

This is a charming observation, founded on long experience, from youth to age: never was it known that the Lord forsook his redeemed. But, Reader! without my observing it, surely it will strike you, as it doth me, that the begging of bread means somewhat of more importance than the bread that perisheth; for many of God's people have been driven to great straits and difficulties, by reason of outward circumstances of poverty. But if read with an eye to that bread which Jesus handeth in secret, and which none knoweth save he that receiveth; even in the deepest want the soul can say, in the language of his master, I have bread to eat that the world knows not of. Revelation 2:17; John 4:32. I detain the Reader just to remark on this last verse, concerning the mouth of the righteous, that it is the righteous One, even God's holy One, that is here spoken of, and of whom, as the following verse saith, the law of his God is in his heart, or in his bowels, wrought up and forming part of his very nature. Psalms 40:8.