Isaiah 25:9 And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD… I. Let us consider WHAT WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND BY WAITING FOR GOD. 1. Almost innumerable instances might be referred to wherein the Jewish nation did evidently wait for God to be their salvation. 2. The same may be observed with regard to mankind in general. (1) The inseparable difficulties attending our situation as dependent creatures are sometimes of so severe and pressing a nature, attended with such intricate consequences, and even in the eye of human wisdom so plainly productive of fatal events, that reason will naturally show us the necessity of applying for relief from a power more unlimited than our own, and cannot, when properly improved, but teach us to make our appeal to that Supreme Being who disposeth all things according to the infallible counsel of His will. (2) And if we attend to the satisfactory instructions of revelation, this will not only show us the necessity of such a dependence, but also make us sensible of its usefulness and advantage. II. IN WHAT RESPECTS WE MAY BE SAID TO HAVE WAITED FOR GOD. III. THE NATURE OF THAT SALVATION WHICH HE HAS WROUGHT FOR US, and the beneficial tendency of such a deliverance. IV. SOME USEFUL REFLECTIONS. 1. It is Our duty to acknowledge those favourable interpositions of Omnipotence, by which either national calamities are removed or national distress prevented. 2. It would be highly base and ungrateful not to rejoice in His salvation which He has so seasonably enabled us to obtain. 3. Consider what abundant advantages may arise, if we do not foolishly neglect to improve it, from the blessing of peace. (R. P. Finch, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. |
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