Psalms 91:2 - Homilies By S. Conway

A sacred resolve.

"I will say of the Lord." Consider—

I. SUCH RESOLVES GENERALLY . It is good to make them; for:

1 . They are really prayers. Underlying them there is the desire of the heart that God may give the help needed to fulfil such resolve.

2 . They are a blessed stirring up of the grace of God that is in us. The will summons the soul to energy by means of such holy resolves.

3 . They are well pleasing to God, for they are an actual endeavour to do his will.

II. THIS RESOLVE .

1 . See its nature. He would take the Lord as his "Refuge." It is a confession of need and of trust. And as his "Fortress." He would need help in his warfare; he would rely on the Lord for it. As his God, his soul's Centre, Strength, and Joy.

2 . He would do this now.

3 . Openly.

4 . Personally.

5 . Habitually.

III. WHAT LED TO THIS RESOLVE . The experience of God's sheltering love of which he tells in the first verse. He was dwelling in the secret place, was abiding in Christ, and he found, as a fact of his experience, that he was sheltered from all evil.

IV. HOW THIS RESOLVE WAS SUSTAINED . By going and telling others of what God had done for him, and would do for them.—S.C.