I. Consider this great and deep utterance in application to God's material works. Let us look at the various phenomena that are around us, and we shall see that the light, and air, and heat, and cold, and the heavenly bodies, the laws of electricity, the various kinds of climate under which men are living all these are marvellously adapted to the end for which they are designed. All that came from the hand of God was very good, and it is the entrance and result of moral evil that has brought an apparent imperfection into the world, so that we are unable to look at the material works of God without having to qualify what the Psalmist says.
II. So it is in God's government of the world. Notwithstanding all that has been said about the Fall, and the present want of symphony and harmony in things, and the strange, bewildering tokens that something has gone wrong and made imperfect that which seems destined to be perfect, we maintain that when the issues of God's government in the world shall be known it shall be found true that His way was perfect.
III. This truth might be applied to the Gospel. If we look at man on the one hand and at God on the other, and at what the Gospel is designed to accomplish, we can see that God's way is perfect.
IV. The text may be brought to bear on God's dealings with His people individually. It is a text to be laid hold on by faith. God never put a wrong burden on anybody's back. His child must be educated, and trained, and disciplined, because he has to be brought home.
V. If by faith we are enabled to use the text now, with all life's riddles to puzzle out, and when we have all God's dark dealings to try us, a day is coming when all these mysteries will be cleared up in the flooding light of eternity, and the song of the saints will be, "As for God, His way is perfect."
J. C. Miller, Penny Pulpit,No. 1035.