A Covenant People

So we come to the last line of the Covenant Prayer; “And now, glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you are mine and I am yours”

David’s Psalm 35:3 follows a similar thought pattern.

The text informs me first of all that David had his doubts; for why should he pray, "Say to my soul, 'I am your salvation'" if he were not sometimes exercised with doubts and fears? We can be encouraged that we are not the only ones who face a faltering faith. If David doubted, we need not conclude that we are not a Christian because we have doubts.

The text reminds us that David was not content while he had doubts and fears, but he proceeded directly to the mercy-seat to pray for assurance, for he valued it as much as gold. We too must work to foster a continual sense of being accepted in the Beloved and must have no joy when His love is not shed abroad in us. David went to his God in prayer, crying, "Say to my soul, 'I am your salvation.'" We need to be often alone with God if we are to enjoy a clear sense of Jesus' love. When our prayers cease, our eye of faith will grow dim.

We notice that David would not be satisfied unless his assurance had a divine source. "Say to my soul . . ." Lord, speak to me! Nothing less than a divine testimony in the soul will ever content the true Christian.

It is something life the old hymn written by Fanny Crosby that said,

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of his spirit, washed in his blood.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Saviour all the day long.

The popular hymn reflects Crosby's walk of faith, as expressed by the apostle Paul in Philippians 1:21, "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain" (ESV).7