"Now will I rise, saith the Lord," &c. 1. _God rules the world in the
interests of His people._ "Now will _I_ rise." Democrats are fond of
saying, "The Queen may reign, but she does not govern;" but the reins
of government are firmly held by the great I AM. 2. _God's
interposition comes at the right moment:_ "_Now_ will I rise." Man's
extremity is often God's opportunity; because not until his case is
desperate, will he cast himself unreservedly upon God. So man often
retards the arrival of the right moment. Meanwhile the innocent
(comparatively) suffer for the guilty; the good for the bad, the just
for the unjust. If it is the teaching of Scripture that God's people
are "the salt of the earth," preserving it from destruction, it is no
less the doctrine of the Bible that untold sorrows are to the
righteous because they dwell on the earth with the wicked. The
Isaiahs and Hezekiahs of the world feel something of the weight of
the world's sin. But there is always a "thus far and no farther."
"_Now_ will I rise, saith the Lord."