Psalm 119:166
"Lord, I have hoped for Thy salvation, and done Thy commandments."
word for law - commandments; Lord, I have hoped for Thy salvation - there is salvation in nothing else or no one else but the Lord; 'Thou shal save Your people from their sins.' 'I have' study in Psalm 119, 33rd out of 37 times used. 'I have hoped for' is the definition of faith. 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen'. 'Lord', the first and last word of this work of salvation. No man shall see the Lord without the Lord. David is coming to where all his hope is found, in the Lord. Do you come to the Lord in such times? all the time? To often we hear and know of the confessions within the body of Christ, they do not come as often as they shoul. Hope for salvation is so rare to find in the body of Christ. They pray for the lost, but believe in nothing to happen. When Charles Finney was lost, but attending his church's prayer meeting, they approached him with the request to pray for his soul. He answered them, 'No, I don't want you to pray for me.' They replied,'But don't you know that your lost and without Christ?' Finney, 'Yes, I know that; but I have been here for weeks and you have not received one thing in answer to your prayers. Why would I want you to pray for me?'
Finney went out into the woods and made this same prayer of David's his', 'Lord, I have hoped for Thy salvation'. And he came back out of the woods born again and filled with the Spirit. Now I have used this phrase in this verse to refer to spiritual salvation. But I do not forget that David had his enemies presently all around him seeking for his destruction. And that the true work of deliverance may have been the prayer of intent here. But taht is the power of the written Word, it speaks on more than one level. Glory to His great Name for such meaning. 'thou shalt call His Name, Jesus; for HE shall save His people from their sins.' Our hope is in what He has done for the saving of the soul. Christ died and resurrected to set the captives free, to remove the guilt of sin by the shedding of His precious blood. Is your hope of salvation in Christ? Have you come to the fount for cleansing of your sins? NO other place to come than unto Him. Let thy faith rests complete in Him for He is able to save unto the uttermost and from the uttermost.
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