Psalms 116:6. The LORD preserveth the simple:
The sincere,- sometimes, the ignorant, those who do not pretend to know; or, the simple, those from whose heart the Lord has driven out all guile, making them to be simple-minded. They are such fools (as the world calls them) as to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is to perform the highest act of wisdom on the part of man. They are such simpletons as to believe the old, old Bible, and to cling to the great atoning sacrifice, and to let the novelties of modern thought blow away like the down of the thistle in the summer breeze. "The Lord preserveth the simple." How did David know that? Listen.
Psalms 116:6. I was brought low, and he helped me.
There is no way of knowing a general doctrine so good as that of having a particular experience of it: "I was brought low, brought to be a simpleton, brought so very low that I was obliged to pray a simple prayer; brought so very, very low that I was obliged to have a simple faith in God, for I had nobody else to believe in, and nobody else to trust. ‘I was brought low, and he helped me.’" What a help that is, a help in which God virtually does it all; for our poor weakness, with its best attempts, would rather hinder than help.
Psalms 116:6. The LORD preserveth the simple:
The sincere,- sometimes, the ignorant, those who do not pretend to know; or, the simple, those from whose heart the Lord has driven out all guile, making them to be simple-minded. They are such fools (as the world calls them) as to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is to perform the highest act of wisdom on the part of man. They are such simpletons as to believe the old, old Bible, and to cling to the great atoning sacrifice, and to let the novelties of modern thought blow away like the down of the thistle in the summer breeze. "The Lord preserveth the simple." How did David know that? Listen.
Psalms 116:6. I was brought low, and he helped me.
There is no way of knowing a general doctrine so good as that of having a particular experience of it: "I was brought low, brought to be a simpleton, brought so very low that I was obliged to pray a simple prayer; brought so very, very low that I was obliged to have a simple faith in God, for I had nobody else to believe in, and nobody else to trust. ‘I was brought low, and he helped me.’" What a help that is, a help in which God virtually does it all; for our poor weakness, with its best attempts, would rather hinder than help.