And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer. And David had trusted God, with a faith which wrought miracles. Recall, for example, his intrepidity in Facing Goliath. All Israel were afraid of the Philistine giant, so that none not even Saul dared to accept his haughty challenge. Yet David, though then but a youth, hesitated not to engage him in mortal combat, going forth to meet him without any material armor, and with naught but a sling in his hand.
Faith is invincible, because it lays hold of One who is omnipotent.
O for faith in the living God, faith in the efficacy of Christ s mediation, to vanquish our lusts. Nor was he by any means alone in this experience. It was by the miracle-working power of God that the three Hebrews were delivered from Babylon s fiery furnace. So again with Daniel himself, yet how often this particular is overlooked. When almost captured, the Lord s people are rescued from the hand of the mighty by One who is mightier still.