2 And he said, Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

Yahweh is my rock and my fortress

....nothing could more graphically convey the sense stability and confidence and safety, but he piles figure upon figure;

"my fortress, my shield, my high tower, my refuge", varied by the literal descriptions, "my deliverer, my saviour."

It seems as if David did not know how strongly enough or how extravagantly enough to give utterance to his admiration of God. The language suggests the idea of a man in a revel, in an abandon of enthusiasm with the subject before his mind.

God has vanished from polite literature or the talk of society, because He has vanished from faith. As a people striving to conform to Bible thought, we have to choose between the world fashion and Bible fashion in this matter.

There can be no hesitation where the eyes are fully open and undimmed by the blowing dust of the world's highway. The fashion of this world passeth away, as John says; the fashion of the Bible passeth not away. God was before the world, and will be after it, and the fashion originating with Him will "persist."

His ideas will dominate mankind when the present era and all its ways will be a forgotten memory; for His glory will fill the earth with a glorified remnant of the human race when the glory of man will have descended for ever into the open mouth of the Bible hell.

The present evil world is but a transient episode in the history of God's work on earth. It has

no more of the elements of permanency in it than the antediluvian era. Who now knows or cares for what went on among the men that lived before the flood?

We make the simple choice of wisdom when we choose to be on the side of David's God, who is from everlasting to everlasting, who made the earth for His own uses, and of whom we read

"Thou wilt save the afflicted people: but Thine eyes are upon the haughty that Thou mayest bring them down".

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