Psalms 45:1. My heart is inditing a good matter:
A good instrument - the heart refined and sanctified - a good subject, for, says he: -
Psalms 45:1. I speak of the things which I have made touching the king:
Oh! it is a loyal subject concerning King Jesus. The original has it, "My heart boileth up with a good matter" - bubbleth up - as if each verse of this Psalm were, so to speak, the bubbling up of a boiling heart that is heated with the love of Christ; and all is concerning him - concerning him the king. "I speak of the things which I have made." That is experience -things made my own; and there is no matter like that. Theoretical theology is of little value. We must have it in the heart, and have it in our own.
Psalms 45:1. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
As though it were moved by another hand, as a pen might be. So the Psalmist feels as if his tongue were under divine influence, and he were about to utter things his own, yet not his own; - things which he has made, yet which the Spirit indicts.
Psalms 45:1. My heart is inditing a good matter:
A good instrument - the heart refined and sanctified - a good subject, for, says he: -
Psalms 45:1. I speak of the things which I have made touching the king:
Oh! it is a loyal subject concerning King Jesus. The original has it, "My heart boileth up with a good matter" - bubbleth up - as if each verse of this Psalm were, so to speak, the bubbling up of a boiling heart that is heated with the love of Christ; and all is concerning him - concerning him the king. "I speak of the things which I have made." That is experience -things made my own; and there is no matter like that. Theoretical theology is of little value. We must have it in the heart, and have it in our own.
Psalms 45:1. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
As though it were moved by another hand, as a pen might be. So the Psalmist feels as if his tongue were under divine influence, and he were about to utter things his own, yet not his own; - things which he has made, yet which the Spirit indicts.