10. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart. God’s plan of making men righteous was well known to him, and he
plainly taught it. What was in our great Master’s heart he poured forth in holy
eloquence from his lips. The doctrine of righteousness by faith he spoke with
great simplicity of speech. Law and Gospel equally found in him a clear
expositor. I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation. Jehovah’s
fidelity to his promises and his grace in saving believers were declared by the
Lord Jesus on many occasions, and are blessedly blended in the Gospel which he
came to preach. God, faithful to his own character, law and threatenings, and
yet saving sinners, is a peculiar revelation of the Gospel. God faithful to the
saved ones evermore is the joy of the followers of Christ Jesus. I have notconcealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. The
tender as well as the stem attributes of God, our Lord Jesus fully unveiled.
Hesitancy never weakened his language. He could be dumb when so the prophecy
demanded and patience suggested, but otherwise preaching was his meat and his
drink, and he kept back nothing which would be profitable to his disciples.
This in the day of his trials, according to this psalm, he used as a plea for
divine aid. He had been faithful to his God, and now begs the Lord to be
faithful to him. Let every believer tongue-tied by sinful shame think how
little he will be able to plead after this fashion in the day of his distress.
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