3. Say unto God. Turn all your praises to
him. Devotion, unless it be resolutely directed to the Lord, is no better than
whistling to the wind. How terrible art thou in thy works. The mind is
usually first arrested by those attributes which cause fear and trembling; and,
even when the heart has come to love God, and rest in him, there is an increase
of worship when the soul is awed by an extraordinary display of the more
dreadful of the divine characteristics. Till we see God in Christ, the terrible
predominates in all our apprehensions of him. Through the greatness of thypower shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee; but, as the Hebrew
clearly intimates, it will be a forced and false submission. Power brings
people to their knees, but love alone wins the heart. Tens of thousands, both
in earth and hell, are rendering this constrained homage to the Almighty; they
only submit because they cannot do otherwise; it is not their loyalty, but his
power, which keeps them subjects of his boundless dominion.
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