Psalms 142:2. I poured out my complaint before him; -
That is a beautiful expression, "I poured out my complaint," - just as you turn a pitcher upside down, and let all the contents run out: "I poured out my complaint." We are generally ready enough to do that, only that, usually, we go to some friend, or to some enemy, and pour out our complaint into his ear. But what is the good of doing that? David took a far wiser course: "I poured out my complaint before him."
Psalms 142:2. I shewed before him my trouble.
Uncovered it, and set it all out in order before him. God could see it, yet David knew that it was his place and his privilege to spread it all out before him.
Psalms 142:2. I poured out my complaint before him; -
That is a beautiful expression, "I poured out my complaint," - just as you turn a pitcher upside down, and let all the contents run out: "I poured out my complaint." We are generally ready enough to do that, only that, usually, we go to some friend, or to some enemy, and pour out our complaint into his ear. But what is the good of doing that? David took a far wiser course: "I poured out my complaint before him."
Psalms 142:2. I shewed before him my trouble.
Uncovered it, and set it all out in order before him. God could see it, yet David knew that it was his place and his privilege to spread it all out before him.