7. He shall abide before God forever. Though
this is true of David in a modified sense, we prefer to view the Lord Jesus as
here intended as the lineal descendant of David, and the representative of his
royal race. Jesus is enthroned before God to eternity; here is our safety,
dignity, and delight. We reign in him. David’s personal claim to sit enthroned
forever is but a foreshadowing of the revealed privilege of all true believers.
O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him. As people cry, “Long live the king,” so we
hail our enthroned Immanuel, and cry, “Let mercy and truth preserve him.” Eternal love and immutable faithfulness are the bodyguards of Jesus’
throne, and they are both the providers and the preservers of all those who in
him are made kings and priests unto God. We cannot keep ourselves, and nothing
short of divine mercy and truth can do it; but these both can and will, nor
shall the least of the people of God be suffered to perish.
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