2Sam 23:4 And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
What a marvelous comparison! "The Light of the Morning", and "The Tender Grass"! But how natural and logical. The rain has fallen in the night, the morning light has driven away the clouds, and now the tender grass springs up out of the watered earth. What could be more beautiful or suggestive than this? King David, when he spoke these Words, was conscious of his own failure to meet the ideal, but he has the divine assurance of the coming of One from his own house who would meet the requirements, and that one --- Jesus!
Lord, give us a new conception of Thyself as beautiful "Tender Grass" upon which our souls may feast and feed. Amen.
