1. Truly, or “only.” That faith alone is true which rests on God alone; confidence which
relies only partly on the Lord is vain confidence. My soul waiteth upon God.
My inmost self draws near in reverent obedience to God. I am no hypocrite. To
wait upon God, or for God, is the habitual position of faith; to wait on him
truly is sincerity; to wait on him only is spiritual chastity. The original is,
“only to God is my soul silence.” The
presence of God alone could awe his heart into quietude, submission, rest, and
acquiescence; but when that was felt, not a rebellious word or thought broke
the peaceful silence. The proverb that speech is silver but silence is gold is
more than true in this case. No eloquence in the world is half so full of
meaning as the patient silence of a child of God, the whole mind ready to be
moved by every breath of his mouth, but free from all inward and self-caused
emotion, as also from all power to be moved by anything other than the divine
will. From him cometh my salvation. The good man will, therefore, in
patience possess his soul till deliverance comes; faith can hear the footsteps
of coming salvation, because she has learned to be silent. Our salvation in no
measure comes to us from any inferior source; to wait on the creature is
idolatry.
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