22. Make haste to help me. Delay would prove
destruction. The poor pleader was far gone and ready to expire; only speedy
help would serve his turn. Affliction gives new life to our pleading, and
drives us with eagerness to our God. O Lord my salvation. Not my Saviour only, but my salvation. He who has the Lord on
his side has salvation in present possession. Faith foresees the blessed issue
of all her pleas, and in this verse begins to ascribe to God the glory of the
expected mercy. We shall not be left by the Lord. His grace will succor us most
opportunely, and in heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many, or
one pang too severe. A sense of sin will melt into the joy of salvation; grief
will lead on to gratitude, and gratitude to joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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