Psalm 71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only. I. HIS RESOLVE. "I will go." 1. He will not sit still. 2. He will go to warfare. 3. He will go forward and make progress in Divine things. 4. He will go to suffering with holy resignation. II. HIS RELIANCE. "In the strength of the Lord God." — 1. He will go glorying in strength already received. 2. Relying upon a strength which did not alter. 3. In a power which sanctified his going. 4. He is confident as to the sufficiency and adaptation of God's strength to every trial or work to which he may be called; for the Hebrew, being plural, hints at this.I will go in the strengths of the Lord God. If I shall require mental vigour, God can give it me. If I shall want physical strength, He can give it me. If I shall need spiritual power, He can give it me. If the particular demand is a clear sight, that I may detect and baffle the cunning of the enemy, He can give it me. If I require courage and quick resolve, He can give them me. If my special need be firmness of mind in the day of temptation, He can give it me. If it be a patient temper, He can give it me. Nothing is wanted by a believer, but that which the strength of God supplies when it is needed. As our days our strength shall be. We shall find the supply always equal to the demand. III. His MESSAGE. "I will make mention," etc. Bear your testimony to the righteousness of God in providence. Stand to it that the Lord never does wrong. He is never mistaken; but whatever He ordains is, and must be, unquestionably right. Bear witness, next, to His righteousness in salvation; that He does not save without an atonement; that He does not put away sin without being strictly just; that He does by no means spare the guilty, but has laid on Christ that which was due to human sin, that He might be "just and the justifier of him that believeth." Declare the righteousness of God as to a future state. Declare that whatever Scripture speaks of the ungodly is true, and that God is righteous in it. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. |
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