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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 29 October 2012
Psalms 119:42
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
119:42. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me. When God, by granting us salvation, gives to our prayers an answer of peace, we are ready at once to answer the objections of the unbeliever, the quibbles of the skeptical, and the sneers of the contemptuous. Revilers should be answered, and hence we may expect the Lord to save his people in order that a weapon may be put into their hands with which to rout his adversaries.
For I trust in thy word. His faith was seen by his being trustful while under trial, and he pleads it as a reason why he should be helped to beat back reproaches by a happy experience. Faith is our argument when we seek mercies and salvation, faith in the Lord who has spoken to us in his Word. Whoever can truly make this declaration has received power to become a child of God, and so to be the heir of unnumbered mercies. If any reproach us for trusting in God, we reply to them with arguments the most conclusive when we show that God has kept his promises, heard our prayers and supplied our needs. Even the most skeptical are forced to bow before the logic of facts.
In this second verse of this eight the psalmist makes a confession of faith, and a declaration of his belief and experience. He does the same in the corresponding verses of the sections which follow.
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