The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. Ps. 116:6.

Read this verse in connection with the preceding one. Many who would not dream of questioning God's righteousness, do often doubt that he forgives and saves them; but the fact that God does this, is given as proof of his righteousness. "He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." It is "the simple" that God upholds; that is, those who are single in mind and heart, and not doubleminded. "A doubleminded man is not stable in all his ways," because he trusts now in God, and now in himself: but man who trusts in God alone is firm as a rock.