Contrasts frequently bring out the truth vividly, and here the church sets forth the creature-confidences of carnal men in contrast with her reliance upon the Prince Immanuel and the invisible Jehovah.  “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses.”  Chariots and horses make an imposing show, and with their rattling, and dust, and fine caparisons, make so great a figure that vain man is much taken with them; yet the discerning eye of faith sees more in an invisible God than in all these.  The most dreaded war-engine of David’s day was the war-chariot, armed with scythes, which mowed down men like grass: this was the boast and glory of the neighbouring nations; but the saints considered the name of Jehovah to be a far better defense.  As the Israelites might not keep horses, it was natural for them to regard the enemy’s cavalry with more than usual dread.  It is, therefore, all the greater evidence of faith that the bold songster can here disdain even the horse of Egypt in comparison with the Lord of hosts.  Alas, how many in our day who profess to be the Lord’s are as abjectly dependent upon their fellow-men or upon an arm of flesh in some shape or other, as if they had never known the name of Jehovah at all.  Jesus, be thou alone our rock and refuge, and never may we mar the simplicity of our faith.  “We will remember the name of the Lord our God.”  “Our God” in covenant, who has chosen us and whom we have chosen; this God is our God.  The name of our God is JEHOVAH, and this should never be forgotten; the self-existent, independent, immutable, ever-present, all-filling I AM.  Let us adore that matchless name, and never dishonour it by distrust or creature-confidence.  Reader, you must know it before you can remember it.  May the blessed Spirit reveal it graciously to your soul!
                                                                                                                                      C. H. Spurgeon