Psalm 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me… Psalm 42. and 43, have so close a connection that they must be regarded as one. From external and internal evidence, they belong to David, and to that part of his life when he was fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. It was the Gethsemane of David, and in and up through his heart was throbbing the spiritual life of the Lord Jesus. It is wonderful when we open these ancient books to find the identity of human life. We feel the beatings of the same heart and see the tears which are common to us all. I. THERE MUST BE CHANGES IN EVERY TRUE LIFE. There is day and there is night, the most opposed conditions. See this especially in the life of our Lord. And these changes are according to a fixed law. II. To SUIT THESE CHANGES IN LIFE THERE ARE DIVINE PROVISIONS. In the day God commands His lovingkindness — His manifold kind providences and grace, and in the night "His song" — the deep, inward realization of His love. III. THERE IS A CONSTANT DUTY ON OUR PART AMID ALL — to pray — "My prayer unto the God of my life. (John Key, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. |
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