7. How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! Here we enter into the Holy of Holies. Benevolence, and mercy, and
justice, are everywhere, but the excellence of that mercy only those have known
whose faith has lifted the veil and passed into the brighter presence of the
Lord; these behold the excellency of the Lord’s mercy. The word translated excellent
may be rendered “precious”; no gem or pearl can ever equal in value a sense of the Lord’s love.
David writes, how excellent! because he cannot tell us the half of it. Thereforethe children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. The best
of reasons for the best of courses. The figure is very beautiful. The Lord
overshadows his people as a hen protects her brood, or as an eagle covers its
young; and we as the little ones run under the blessed shelter and feel at
rest. To cower down under the wings of God is so sweet. Although the enemy be
far too strong for us, we have no fear, for we nestle under the Lord’s wing. Oh
that more of Adam’s race knew the excellency of the heavenly shelter! It made
Jesus weep to see how they refused it: our tears may well lament the same evil.
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