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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. Lord ground me and found me in thy knowledge: give me to know fully, firmly, what I do know. I would not be as a man that eats, but thinks not, whence the bread came, but I would wish to understand the way of thy precepts: “so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. “I am poured out like water,” says the Saviour. “My heart is like wax. It is melted in the midst of my bowels.” It is the greatness of pain, the greatness of fear, the greatness of sorrow,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: “Let me know, O Lord, what the way of thy precept is; get me into that way; and then, oh help me to keep in it all my life!” Psa_119:27. So shall I talk of thy wondrous works. A man never talks rightly of God’s works till he knows God’s ways, and it is idle to talk of them if there is no doing at the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. He who fully understands the way of God’s precepts must talk of his wondrous works. There is a power about that truth in the heart to unloose the most stammering tongue. We are bound to speak of that which God teaches to us: “Make me to understand the way of thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. It is a bad thing to talk of what we do not understand and he who shall preach what he has never experienced is very likely to do so. Yet beloved, there is no understanding Gods precepts except he shall teach them to us. We are void of understanding. He must...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My soul melteth for heaviness,.... Like wax before the sun or fire; or flows like water; drops (a), as the word signifies, and dissolves into tears, through grief and sorrow for sins committed; or by reason of Satan's temptations, or divine desertions, or grievous troubles and afflictions; which cause heaviness, lie heavy, and press hard;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. Will not this prayer suit some that are in this house this morning who are very dull and depressed? Oh, if your soul sinks, still pray and say: “Strengthen thou me.” You want strength, dear friends. If you had more strength, your trouble would not crush you; your soul would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul melteth for heaviness: The Hebrew word is “droppeth.” The psalmist’s soul was like water dripping from the eaves of a house in time of rain. There are two sorts of sorrow, — the sorrow that rushes like a mighty torrent, and the sorrow, which is perhaps the worse of the two, which goes drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, — like the constant...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. Are any of you, dear friends, in that condition? Do your hearts melt within you? It is a sore trouble, as I know full well. “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity;” but when his very soul melts for heaviness, what is he to do then? Why, even then he may pray; nay,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul melteth for heaviness: For the best of men sometimes suffer the sharpest sorrows. Hearts of stone are not likely to be so sensitive as hearts of flesh. “My soul melted for heaviness.” Psa_119:28. Strengthen thou me according unto thy word. He wants strength, but he does not want to obtain it in any way, but the way of God’s appointment....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Remove from me the way of lying,.... Not the sin of lying to men, and a course of it, which David was not addicted to; but a "false way", or "way of falsehood" (b); as it may be rendered, and so the Targum; and is the same with what he expresses his abhorrence of, Psalms 119:128; and is opposed to the way of truth in Psalms 119:30; and designs all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. As a captain lays out his chart so as to keep his course correctly and safely, so I try to sail by it. I have chosen thy law, and precept, and command as my course, and I would fain keep to them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. “Take away the evil: give me the good.” “The way of lying.” Oh! it is a dreadful thing to get into that. There are some that have a way of doing it — some that do it jocosely, some that do it by implication. Some think it shrewd to deceive. “Remove from me the way of lying.” If...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove from me the way of lying: “Do not let me fall into any untrue habits. Do not let me profess to have had an experience which I have never felt, or talk about holy things of which I know nothing experimentally. Keep me from everything that has any trace of falsehood in it.” Psa_119:29. And grant me thy law graciously. “For thy law is truth,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. “Lord, let me not be pestered by liars, and let me never fall into any measure of falsehood myself.” There is a way of thinking better of yourself than you deserve, which is a form of lying. There is a method of supposing that you have experienced what you never have experienced,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. Let me not lie. Let me not be tempted to lie. Let me not be pestered with the falsehoods of others. Remove the way of lying far from me, and oh! by thy grace, give me to know the law. That is a remarkable combination of words. “Grant me thy law graciously.” Has law anything to do...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have chosen the way of truth,.... Christ, who is the way and the truth, the true way to God and to eternal happiness; and to choose him is to choose the good part, which shall never be taken away; and which choice is made, not by the free will of man, as left to itself, but under the influence and by the direction of the Spirit and grace of God;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. Here is, first, choice: “I have chosen the way of truth.” Here is his practically carrying it out: “Thy judgments have I laid before me.” Here is his perseverance in it: “I have stuck unto thy testimonies.” And then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. “I have laid them before me as a man puts his model in front of him that he may work to it.” It is well for us to have God’s way and God’s judgments always before our eyes, that we may be duly impressed and rightly guided by them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have chosen the way of truth: “I want to be true, I want to know the truth, I want to feel the truth, I want to practice the truth: ‘I have chosen the way of truth.’” Psa_119:30. Thy judgments have I laid before me. “Like a map, so that I might follow the way of truth as I see it drawn out in letters of light in thy Word.” The man who spreads...