Charles Spurgeon Commentary Exodus 15:2

"Jehovah is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father`s God, and I will exalt him." — Exodus 15:2 (ASV)

The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

The heart is prompted by gratitude to think of doing something for God. It thinks of preparing him a habitation; but what habitation shall we prepare for him whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain? All that we can possibly do is too little for the greatness of his grace and his glory.

Thou didst well that it was in thine heart, said the Lord to David, though he might not prepare God a habitation. It is well that it is in our heart today to do some little thing for the glory of God.

As an old Puritan says, we give for love tokens a cracked sixpence, or a flower that soon fades. It is accepted as a love token, not for its intrinsic value, but as an emblem of what our heart feels, and would do if it could. So it is with the Lord and the service his people seek to render to him. He takes our trifles, and makes much of them.