He puts down the mighty from
their seat, and exalts the humble and meek. He takes the beggar from
the dunghill, that He may set him among the princes of His people.
So He has been doing in all ages. So He will do even now, in some
measure, with everyone like David, let him be as low as he will in
the opinion of this foolish world, who yet puts his trust utterly in
God, and goes about all his work, as David did, in the name of the
Lord of hosts. Oh! if a poor man feels that God has given him wit
and wisdom--feels in him the desire to rise and better himself in
life, let him be sure that the only way to rise is David's plan--to
keep humble and quiet till God shall lift him up, trusting in God's
righteousness and love to raise him, and deliver him, and put him in
that station, be it high or low, in which he will be best able to do
God's work, or serve God's glory.
And now for the chapter from which the text is taken, which relates
to us David's first great public triumph--his victory over Goliath
the giant. I will not repeat it to you, because everyone here who
has ears to hear or a heart to feel ought to have been struck with
every word in that glorious story. All I will try to do is, to show
you how the working of God's Spirit comes out in David in every
action of his on that glorious day.
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