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Morning and Evening

June 16, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" — Psalm 27:1 · KJV

"The Lord is my light and my salvation." Here is personal interest: "my light," "my salvation." The soul is assured of it and therefore declares it boldly. At the new birth divine light is poured into the soul as the forerunner of salvation; where there is not enough light to reveal our own darkness and make us long for the Lord Jesus, there is no evidence of salvation. After conversion our God is our joy, comfort, guide, teacher, and in every sense our light: He is light within, light around, light reflected from us, and light to be revealed to us. Note that it is not merely said that the Lord gives light, but that He is light; nor that He gives salvation, but that He is salvation. He, then, who by faith has laid hold on God has every covenant blessing in his possession. This being settled as fact, the argument drawn from it is put in the form of a question: "Whom shall I fear?"—a question that is its own answer. The powers of darkness are not to be feared, for the Lord, our light, destroys them; and the damnation of hell is not to be dreaded by us, for the Lord is our salvation. This is a very different challenge from that of boastful Goliath, for it rests not on the conceited vigor of an arm of flesh but on the real power of the omnipotent I AM. "The Lord is the strength of my life." Here is a third glowing title, showing that the writer's hope was fastened with a threefold cord that could not be broken. We may well pile up terms of praise where the Lord lavishes deeds of grace. Our life derives all its strength from God, and if He deigns to make us strong, we cannot be weakened by all the schemes of the adversary. "Of whom shall I be afraid?" The bold question looks into the future as well as the present. "If God be for us," who can be against us, either now or in time to come?