“Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people! Selah” Psalm 3:8
“This verse contains the sum and substance of Calvinistic doctrine. Search Scripture through, and you must, if you read it with a candid mind, be persuaded that the doctrine of salvation by grace alone is the great doctrine of the word of God: "Salvation belongs unto the Lord." This is a point concerning which we are daily fighting. Our opponents say, "Salvation belongs to the free will of man; if not to man's merit, yet at least to man's will;" but we hold and teach that salvation from first to last, in every iota of it, belongs to the Most High God. It is God that chooses his people. He calls them by his grace; he quickens them by his Spirit, and keeps them by his power. It is not of man, neither by man; "not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy." May we all learn this truth experimentally, for our proud flesh and blood will never permit us to learn it in any other way. In the last sentence the peculiarity and speciality of salvation are plainly stated: " Your blessing be on your people." Neither upon Egypt, nor upon Tyre, nor upon Ninevah; Your blessing is upon thy chosen, Your blood-bought, Your everlastingly-beloved people. "Selah:" lift up your hearts, and pause, and meditate upon this doctrine. " Your blessing be on your people." Divine, discriminating, distinguishing, eternal, infinite, immutable love, is a subject for constant adoration. Pause, my soul, at this Selah, and consider thine own interest in the salvation of God; and if by humble faith thou art enabled to see Jesus as thine by his own free gift of himself to thee, if this greatest of all blessings be upon thee, rise up and sing —
"Rise, my soul! adore and wonder!
Ask, `O why such love to me?'
Grace hath put me in the number
Of the Saviour's family:
Hallelujah!
- C.H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David
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