How beautifully this shows us the tender care God has over all His creatures! He fails not to find a house for the most worthless of birds, and a nest for the most restless. What confidence this should give us! How we should rest! What repose the soul gets that casts itself upon the watchful tender care of Him who provides so fully for the need of all His creatures.

David exhibits that never-failing token of a heart that knows the Lord: confidence in God above all, and at whatever cost: “Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great” (2 Sam. 24:14). Sweet and precious thought of what the Lord is unto His people! And well He knows how to fill the heart with the certainty that He deserves its confidence. Even while chastening, God is more loving, more faithful, more worthy of confidence than any other.

The simple refuge of the saint is in God. “God is my defense.” It is not counterplotting, nor using human means to meet the power of the enemy. We may, partially perhaps and for a time, so succeed, but in using carnal weapons we have lost the dependence which calls God in, and the perfection of walk and testimony which waiting on Him gives.

There are moments when God makes us feel that we cannot rely on man but only on Him. Often we have comfort from men: “God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus” (2 Cor. 7:6). But we must not rely on man. Hence, there are moments when we have to say, “All men are liars” (Ps. 116:11), and we are cast on the Lord.