It has an inexpressibly delightful application to the dying but it is for the living, too and at this time if, through any peculiar trials, your soul is cast down within you, and you are walking through the valley of death-shade, I pray you to repeat the words of the text, and may the Lord help you to feel that they are true,- “Yea, though (even now) I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” The words are not in the future tense, and therefore are not reserved for a distant moment. This verse is no doubt very applicable to the experience of a believer when he comes to die but, for certain, that is not its only intent. Would to God that every believer who is burdened and cast down might find it as precious to his own heart as I have found it to mine. I shall enjoy it, I doubt not, when I come near death’s gate but I have had it already sealed to my own soul with richness and fulness of comfort by the blessed Spirit of our God. I sucked the honey out of this verse some days ago when a tempest howled around me, but its sweetness is there still. Yes, and have it all the more because your faith has fed upon its fatness. You can enjoy a promise and have it still. Fathers tell their children, “You cannot eat your cake and have it too” but this rule does not hold good of the consolations of God. The other day I found that I needed to eat this heavenly loaf at once, and I did so. “Yea, though I walk through death’s dark vale, 4.ĭo you know I had laid this text by? I meant that this choice promise should be kept in store and stock till I came near the river of Jordan, and I hoped that then, in my last hours, I might be privileged to enjoy its sweetness, and sing with joyful lips. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”- Psalm xxiii.
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