0255. "BUT THOU ART HOLY."

"BUT THOU ART HOLY."

Psa_22:3.

This is the Psalm of Psalms, in which Jesus Christ is without doubt set forth crucified among us. When expounding this Psalm, Luther shut himself up for three days and three nights to be alone with its great realities. David is no doubt writing about one of his many sad experiences, yet all the Psalm is far away and beyond the experience of any mere man.

This Psalm has often been the language of God’s people throughout the centuries since it was written, when in lack of token of the Master’s presence, of the Divine favour, when pressed down or overwhelmed with grief.

In the midst of this bewilderment, and of God’s puzzling silence, one fact brought untold comfort-it was the fact of God’s holiness, the very last fact that we would have imagined as a means of consolation. Yet there it is. Who would have thought of it? Of course it was only another way of saying that He is too wise to err, too good to be unkind. In the midst of all His bewildering and puzzling providences remember that He is a Holy God. And remember that His Holiness loves to dwell in the praises of His people. Also do not forget past deliverances (Psa_22:4 and Psa_22:5).

His Holiness is a Holiness to be trusted at all times, in dark days as well as bright; when everything has gone wrong as well as when all is well.

Autor: James Smith