9, 18).
And through Isaiah the Lord replies: "Even to your old age I am
He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I
will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you" (Isaiah xlvi.
4). And David cries out, "The righteous shall flourish like the
palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be
planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of
our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they
shall be fat and flourishing, to show that the Lord is upright"
(Psalm xcii. 12-15).
These are sample promises of which the Bible is full, and which
have been adapted by infinite wisdom and love to meet us at every
point of doubt and fear and need, that, in believing them, we may
have a steadfast and glad hope in God. He is pledged to help us.
He says: "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for
I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea,
I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness"
(Isaiah xli. 10).
When all God's waves and billows seemed to sweep over David, and
his soul was bowed within him, three times he cried out: "Why art
thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?
Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His
countenance" (Psalm xlii. 5). And Jeremiah, remembering the
wormwood and the gall, and the deep mire of the dungeon into
which they had plunged him, and from which he had scarcely been
delivered, said: "It is good that a man should both hope and
quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord" (Lam.
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