“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”—PSA. xxiii. 5,
6.
IT is a very delightful thing to be able to say “Surely” when we look
forward. Now, this sureness for the future depends on our present
relationship to God, and the confidence expressed in verse 6 is the
blessed result of the unspeakably precious gifts described in the earlier
verses of the Psalm. It depends on the connection between the present
and the future, a connection resulting from the unchangeableness in the
character of God. In order, therefore, to understand the last verse
which relates to the future, let us study the one preceding it, which
describes the present. We may thus combine the present and the future,
and I think the result will be what our Church describes as a “sure and
certain hope.”