the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Our Daily Homily - Volume 2
Psalms 16:10—Thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades.
This hymn is for ever sacred because of its application by the Holy Ghost to our Savior’s resurrection (Acts 2:1-47). It was as though our Lord had stayed his soul upon these words as He left this world and entered the unseen. The last words He uttered were of committal to his Father, and then He commenced to traverse the land of shadow. "He that ascended is He that first descended into the lower parts of the earth." The Apostle Peter says that He went to visit the spirits in prison. Whither He went is not material—it is enough for our purpose that He sang, as He went, this hymn of immortal hope. Sure that He was the Father’s beloved, He knew that He would not be left to Hades, nor suffered to see corruption. He knew that there was a path of life somewhere, which God would show.
Whenever you are stepping down into the dark, unable to see a hand’s-breadth before you, and just letting the foot fall from step to step—it may be because of some act of obedience to conscience, or because you are called to enter the unknown and untried, or even death itself—cheer your heart with this holy Psalm. God will never desert the soul that absolutely honours and obeys Him. His way leads to the light through the dark, to the deathless through death, to the abounding fruit-bearing through desertion and loneliness. How lonely the vine-stock is through the winter! Follow Him, He will show.
"She is sinking very fast," whispered an attendant in the dying chamber of a godly woman. "No, no," was the quick response of the departing saint, who had overheard the words: "no; I am sot sinking; I am in the arms of my Savior."
