Psalms 77:20

REFLECTIONS

READER, ponder over the weighty contents of this blessed Psalm. Do we see Christ in it? Did Jesus so cry in the days of his flesh? Did he accomplish salvation for his people, when he bore their sins and carried their sorrows? Oh! then, let us delight to trace his footsteps amidst all the dark and hidden providences with which we may be exercised. Depend upon it, he is bringing all his redeemed by a right way to a city of habitation. He that led his people like a flock safely through the wilderness, by the hand of Moses and Aaron, is never inattentive to his people now. They may be exercised, they may he cast down; but they shall not be cast off, nor forgotten by him forever. Let us do as the writer of this sweet Psalm did; under our sharpest trials, let us call to mind the days that are past, and the years of God's faithful dealings with his people in ancient times; see whether we cannot find exercises, with which the faithful were brought to the test, similar to our own. This will help us, by the Spirit's sweet application of it, under numberless occasions. Faith will revive in the review. The soul will say, Was Jesus faithful then, and will he not be faithful now? He mightily delivered his people under their distresses, and is he not Jesus still to me under mine? Doth he not rest in his love? Doth he not hate putting away? Set up, my soul, this day, this very day, thy Ebenezer afresh. Hitherto the Lord hath helped. Though I cannot see at all times my path clear, yet let me see, Lord, thy faithfulness at all times the same. Ere long I shall see thy glory. Hallelujah! Jesus lives, and Jesus reigns: all shall be well. Thou art then the God of my salvation, on thee will I lean, and to thee will I come, and in thee let me be found now and forever.