1. Unto thee will I cry, O Lordmy rock. A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and is a suitable utterance
when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to
the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we
consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and his ability to aid, we shall
see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our
salvation, and shall use language of firm resolve like that in the text, Iwill cry. Jehovah is our rock, the immovable foundation of all our
hopes and refuge in time of trouble. Be not silent to me. Genuine
suppliants are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the
mind and subduing the will—they must go further and obtain actual replies from
heaven, at once if possible; they dread even a little of God’s silence. When
God seems to close his ear, we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather
cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and
grief, he will not long deny us a hearing. What a dreadful case should we be in
if the Lord should become forever silent to our prayers! This thought suggested
itself to David, and he turned it into a plea, thus teaching us to argue and
reason with God in our prayers. Lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. Deprived of God who answers prayer, we
should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon
sink to the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to
prayer: ours is an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak
peace to our agitated minds, for he never can find it in his heart to permit
his own elect to perish.
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