THE PSALMS

THE PSALMS

The Psalms are the utterances of the remnant, not written after experienced, but to help them in the experience.

^[p. 110] Those who wrote them had the experience before they wrote them, but they are the word to comfort the remnant in the latter day, so that they may be assured in heart of being able to surmount the trials through which they are passing. The Lord Jesus Christ has passed through these self-same trials on their account, but He takes up the trials as from God, and hence His part in the Psalms is generally only occasional, like a great singer lending his note and voice to particular parts of the song. The Lord is bearing them company in sympathy; He does not generally use all the psalm Himself, but He aids them by His sympathy when He can, and then speaks. Thus I understand them. Even to us the Lord does not lend us His sympathy unless when we are in His own path.