6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. To whom
can this be spoken but to our Lord? The psalmist cannot restrain his adoration.
His enlightened eye sees in the royal husband of the church God to be adored,
God reigning everlastingly. Blind are the eyes that cannot see God in Christ
Jesus! We never appreciate our King’s becoming one flesh with his church, and
placing her at his right hand, until we have fully rejoiced in his essential
glory and deity. What a glad tiring that he reigns on a throne which will never
pass away, for we need both sovereign grace and eternal love to secure our
happiness. Could Jesus cease to reign we should cease to be blessed, and were
he not God, and therefore eternal, this must be the case. No throne can endure
forever but that on which God himself sits. The scepter of thy kingdom is aright scepter. He is the lawful monarch of all things. His rule is founded
in right, its law is right, its result is right. Even when he breaks his
enemies with a rod of iron, he will do no one wrong; his vengeance and his
grace are both in conformity with justice. Hence we trust him without
suspicion; he cannot err; no affliction is too severe, for he sends it; no
judgment too harsh, for he ordains it.
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