- Psalm 91:3 KJV
God delivers His people from the snare of the fowler in two senses. From, and out of. First, He delivers them from the snare—He does not let them enter it. Secondly, if they should be caught therein, He delivers them out of it. The first promise is the most precious to some; the second is the best to others. "He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler." How?
Trouble is often the means whereby God delivers us. God knows that our backsliding will soon end in our destruction, and He in mercy sends the 'rod'. We say, "Lord—why is this?" not knowing that our trouble has been the means of delivering us from far greater evil. Many have been thus saved from spiritual ruin—by their sorrows and their crosses; these have frightened the birds from the snare of the fowler.
At other times, God keeps His people from the snare of the fowler by giving them great spiritual strength, so that when they are tempted to do evil, they say, "How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
But what a blessed thing it is that if the believer shall, in an evil hour, come into the net—yet God will bring him out of it! O backslider, be cast down—but do not despair. Wanderer though you have been, hear what your Redeemer says, "Return, O backsliding children; I will have mercy upon you!" But you say you cannot return, for you are a captive. Then listen to the promise, "Surely He shall deliver you out of the snare of the fowler!" You shall yet be brought out of all evil into which you have fallen—and though you shall never cease to repent of your ways—yet He who has loved you will not cast you away; He will receive you, and give you joy and gladness, that the bones which He has broken may rejoice. No bird of paradise shall die in the fowler's net!
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