A sacred resolve.
"I will say of the Lord." Consider—
I. SUCH RESOLVES GENERALLY. It is good to make them; for:
1. They are really prayers. Underlying them there is the desire of the heart that God may give the help needed to fulfil such resolve.
2. They are a blessed stirring up of the grace of God that is in us. The will summons the soul to energy by means of such holy resolves.
3. They are well pleasing to God, for they are an actual endeavour to do his will.
II. THIS RESOLVE.
1. See its nature. He would take the Lord as his "Refuge." It is a confession of need and of trust. And as his "Fortress." He would need help in his warfare; he would rely on the Lord for it. As his God, his soul's Centre, Strength, and Joy.
2. He would do this now.
3. Openly.
4. Personally.
5. Habitually.
III. WHAT LED TO THIS RESOLVE. The experience of God's sheltering love of which he tells in the first verse. He was dwelling in the secret place, was abiding in Christ, and he found, as a fact of his experience, that he was sheltered from all evil.
IV. HOW THIS RESOLVE WAS SUSTAINED. By going and telling others of what God had done for him, and would do for them.—S.C.