It is refreshing to turn from the description of man's king in 1 Samuel 8 to the gracious words of God's king in Psalm 132. Speaking of Zion, He says, “I will abundantly bless her provision, I will satisfy her poor with bread.” In the day of John 6, He gave them a taste of this. Seeing the famished multitudes around Him, He opened His bountiful hand, and with five barley loaves and two small fishes, He satisfied the need of five thousand men, besides women and children, with twelve basketfuls of fragments left over. Do we wonder that the people sought to take Him by force and make Him King? How delightful for men, after ages of kingly rapacity and oppression, to have found One who could be a giver to His people! But neither from men nor from Satan would the Christ of God receive the kingdom: from the hand of God alone will He take it. Then will commence that long era of prosperity and peace which so filled the mind and heart of the writer of Psalm 72 and which constrained him to conclude with an outburst of praise: “Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be His glorious name forever: and let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen, and Amen'' (Psa. 72:1819). No wonder he added, “the prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.” From the standpoint of an earthly saint, what could he ask beyond this?