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Daily Devotionals
Our Daily Homily - Volume 2
Psalms 124:1—If it had not been the Lord who was on our side.
Here is an If which cannot be an if. It is never a matter of uncertainty whether the Lord will be on our side or not. For the Lord Jesus in his incarnation and death has taken his place beside us for evermore. He is always on our side, so long as we keep his paths and walk in his ways.
"Though unperceived by mortal sense,
Faith sees Him always near,
A Guide, a Guardian, a Defence;
Then what have you to fear?"
There are in all human lives hours of overpowering anxiety, when we feel as though it were impossible to live another moment—exposed to danger, separated from dear ones, not knowing what an hour may bring forth. Then, as you look up, you find that the Lord is beside you, sharing your anxieties, and affording you his inviolable protection. You cannot descry Him by the eye of sense, but you know Him to be there, and neither man nor devil can prevail against you.
When we look back on life, as the psalmist does here, we become aware of the myriad instances of Divine protection. We were not so vividly conscious at the time; we might even have had fits of depression and counted ourselves bereft. But if we narrowly consider the perils from which we have been rescued, when we were about to be swallowed up quick, we become convinced that He was there. In life and death and judgment, Jesus, your Advocate, will ever stand at your side and "silence all who would condemn. So that with good courage you may say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: what shall man or devil do unto me!"
"Cast all your care on God! That anchor holds!"
