17. And hide not thy face from thy servant. A good
servant desires the light of his master’s countenance; that Servant of
servants, who was also the King of kings, could not bear to lose the presence
of his God. The more he loved his Father, the more severely he felt the hiding
of his face. For I am in trouble. Do not add sorrow upon sorrow. If ever
a man needs the comforting presence of God, it is when he is in distress; and
being in distress is a reason to be pleaded with a merciful God why he should
not desert us. We may pray that our flight be not in the winter, and that God
will not add spiritual desertion to all our other tribulations. Hear me, speedily. The case was urgent, delay was deadly. Our Lord was the
perfection of patience, yet he cried urgently for speedy mercy; and therein he
gives us liberty to do the same, so long as we add, “nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.”
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