In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength: For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. (Isaiah 26)
Stayedness on God is nothing else but the fixedness of
believing and trusting, "his heart is fixed, trusting in God; his heart is
established." Faith abiding in him and taking root, groweth, confirmed as
a tree that cannot easily be moved; and if you establish faith, you shall be
established. God will never send any away ashamed that trust in him, because
they shall find more than they expected.
Therefore the soul that is stayed on meditation of God, and
knoweth him certainly, will be fixed in expectation from him. The Lord hath
often done things we looked not for, but we never looked for any thing,
according to the grounds of the word, but it was done, or a better than it. He
doth not always answer our limitations; but if he give gold, when we sought
silver, are we not answered? Are we disappointed?
Not only doth the soul trust in God, but God keepeth the
trusting soul in peace. He is the Creator of peace, and the preserver of it, --
"I create peace, I keep him in peace." Our faith and hope in God is
too weak an anchor to abide all storms. Our cords would break, our hands faint
and weary, but he is the everlasting God, who faileth not, and wearieth not. We are kept by his power unto salvation, and
we are kept by his power in peace. "Thy right hand holdeth me," saith
David, and this helpeth me to pursue thee. What maketh believers inexpugnable,
impregnable? Is it their strength? No indeed. But "salvation will God
appoint for walls and bulwarks." Almighty power is a strong wall, though
invisible, -- this power worketh in us and about us.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning — Hugh Binning
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