2 Samuel 23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure… I. THE DESCRIPTION WHICH HE GIVES OF THIS GREAT COVENANT. 1. The time it is to last. It is "an everlasting covenant" — strictly everlasting — never, never to expire. 2. The completeness of its arrangements. It is "ordered in all things, and sure." The covenants of men are often very incomplete. Something, perhaps, hath been forgotten or lost sight of in the drawing of them up, which makes them almost good for nothing to the parties they are made with. Some case, some circumstance, is unprovided for, which, as soon as it occurs, makes the covenant of none effect. Not so in respect of the covenant of grace made with sinners through a Saviour. No, that is all complete in its provisions. Complete in reference to God's requirements. For it satisfies His justice; it fulfils His truth; it displays His holiness; it magnifies His love; it sets forth His wisdom; it commends His mercy; it shows forth at once all His glorious perfections, and puts a song of praise into the lips of men and angels. And it is complete, again: in reference to man; nothing, nothing is there wanting in the salvation of Christ Jesus to make it everything poor sinners want. II. THE INTEREST WHICH DAVID STATES HIMSELF TO HAVE IN THIS EVERLASTING COVENANT. "God hath made it," saith he, "with me." He had an assurance, then, that he was personally interested in this covenant. He could lay his hand on it and call it his — a covenant made particularly with himself. And, brethren, there is little comfort otherwise. It is a poor thing to look upon salvation, and to say, "This and that man have a part in it. The comfort is when we can bring it nearer home; when we can think, upon good grounds, "I have a share in it." III. DAVID'S FILLINGS. 1. "All my salvation." Why that, in other words, is to tell us that he could most comfortably rest upon it, rest upon it altogether. 2. "This," saith he, this everlasting covenant of grace, "is all my desire." (A. Roberts, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. |
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