“Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for Thou art my strength.” — Psalm 31:4

Our spiritual foes are of the serpent’s brood, a and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. The prayer before us supposes the possibility of the believer being caught like a bird. So deftly does the fowler do his work, that simple ones are soon surrounded by the net. The text asks that even out of Satan’s meshes the captive one may be delivered; this is a proper petition, and one which can be granted: from between the jaws of the lion, and out of the belly of hell, can eternal love rescue the saint. It may need a sharp pull to save a soul from the net of temptations, and a mighty pull to extricate a man from the snares of malicious cunning, but the Lord is…

equalto every emergency, and the most skilfully placed nets of the hunter shallnever be able to hold His chosen ones. Woe unto those who are so clever atnet laying; they who tempt others shall be destroyed themselves.

“For Thou art my strength.” What an inexpressible sweetness is to befound in these few words! How joyfully may we encounter toils, and howcheerfully may we endure sufferings, when we can lay hold upon celestialstrength. Divine power will rend asunder all the toils of our enemies,confound their politics, and frustrate their knavish tricks; he is a happyman who has such matchless might engaged upon his side. Our ownstrength would be of little service when embarrassed in the nets of basecunning, but the Lord’s strength is ever available; we have but to invoke it,and we shall find it near at hand. If by faith we are depending alone uponthe strength of the mighty God of Israel, we may use our holy reliance as aplea in supplication.

“Lord, evermore Thy face we seek:Tempted we are, and poor, and weak;Keep us with lowly hearts, and meek.Let us not fall. Let us not fall.”

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