Under the Old Testament none loved God more than David; none was loved of God more than he. The paths of faith and love wherein he walked are unto the most of us like the way of an eagle in the air, —too high and hard for us. Yet to this very day do the cries of this man after God's own heart sound in our ears. Sometimes he complains of broken bones, sometimes of drowning depths, sometimes of waves and water-spouts, sometimes of wounds and diseases, sometimes of wrath and the sorrows of hell; everywhere of his sins, the burden and trouble of them.