To be near unto God - pagina 497

Jeremiah and David the Scripture describes this particular character of every- individual's hidden walk with the Eternal Being. Although Psalm 22 bears a strongl}- marked Messianic character, and although this song of the most grievous woe only attains its fullest significance in its application to the Man of Sorrows, it would be misleading, if we did not take it as an interpretation of David's own experience, and if we did not apply it to the Psalmist first.

As

St.

pleased

Paul declares. Gal. 1:15, that it hath to separate him from his mother's

God

womb, and

to call

him by

his grace,

and

as

it

reads in Jeremiah (1:5) "Before I formed thee in the bell}- I knew thee; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee." so also David confesses that the Lord's interest in him began before he was born. "For thou art he," sang he in Ps 22:9, "that took me out of the

womb:

Thou

didst

make me

trust

when

I

was upon my mother's breasts: I was cast upon thee from the womb. Thou art my God from

my

mother's belly." Entirely apart from the deeper significance of these words when applied to the Messiah, it was from the life of David's own soul that this conviction sprang regarding his own walk with God, and it should not be lost from sight, that entirely apart from his calling as the elect servant of the Lord, he applies it altogether in a general sense to the forming and creation of a human being. "Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, marvellous are the works; and that my soul knoweth right well. substance was

My

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