Psalm 119:152 | “Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever.”

The psalmist rests in a truth learned long ago. God’s testimonies are reliable because they are ancient. They were founded in the distant past and have never shifted. What God has decreed does not bend with time, culture, or circumstance. The psalmist can rely on the Lord’s constancy, knowing that while the grass withers, the word of our God stands forever. As Spurgeon writes, “Let ‘cultured intellects’ invent another god, more gentle and effeminate than the God of Abraham; we are well content to worship Jehovah, who is eternally the same. Things everlastingly established are the joy of established saints. Bubbles please boys, but men prize those things which are solid and substantial, with a foundation and a bottom to them which will bear the test of ages.” Though he has known this for many years, the truth itself has not grown old. God’s promises do not weaken with time, nor do they ever expire. What God has founded forever will stand forever.