F. B. Hole

Sometimes the child of God is found in a position where he is smarting under trials and sorrows that he has really brought upon his own head. In His holy government God has placed His hand upon him, and he has to reap what he has sown. This perhaps is the severest test of all. When David wrote Psalm 3 he was in this plight, for he was fleeing from Absalom his son. That was perhaps the blackest hour of all his varied history, for its details bore a strongly retributive character. He had sown to the flesh and was now reaping a perfect whirlwind of corruption.