F. B. Hole

Let us then keep short accounts with God. If we sin we have an Advocate with the Father, so our course is to judge ourselves, and confess, when we shall be restored to communion with God, and be able to accept whatever may come upon us in the way of discipline, without losing confidence in Him. Then in the midst of the trouble we may find God to be our Shield and Glory, and ultimately our Deliverer. The latter part of Psalm 3 gives a beautiful picture of David calm and sustained and unafraid in the midst of his afflictions, and then finally delivered out of them.