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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments,.... Lead, guide, direct me in the path, and use me to it; work in me both to will and to do; give both ability and a willing mind to walk therein; by granting fresh supplies of grace, and more spiritual strength; by drawing with the cords of love, and by putting in him the good spirit of grace, to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. “Not only teach me the way, but make me to go in it. Take hold of me as a mother does of her little child, and teach me how to walk, and help me in the walking.” Make me to go. It is a feeble word — a most expressive prayer. “Make me to go for therein do I delight.” When a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. And when a man delights to do that which is right, God will help him to do it. The psalmist seems to speak like a little child who has not found the use of his limbs yet. He says, “Make me to go; take hold of me, as a nurse does of her charge, and enable me to take my first...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to go in the path — Or, say — Psa_119:35. Of thy commandment; for therein do I delight. “Make me to go.” Not only show me the way, but make me to go, like a nurse does with a child when she puts her hands under its arms, and strengthens its tottering footsteps. This is a very beautiful expression: “Make me to go.” Lord, we are very weak;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies,.... To read the word of God, to hear it opened and explained, to observe and keep the things contained in it; to which there is a disinclination in men naturally: but the Lord, who fashions the hearts of men, and has them in his hands, can bend and incline them by his efficacious grace to regard these his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, Bend it that way — incline it. Psa_119:36. And not to covetousness. For, naturally, my heart would go after the world, and cleave to its riches and its treasures, and begin to covet, but, Lord, bend it the other way. If you do not love God’s testimonies, the tendency will be to become a lover of the world....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. “Make me covetous for holiness; let that passion which, in other men, goes after gold and silver, in me run after obedience and fellowship with thee, my God. Incline my heart in another way than nature would incline it; nature puts it on the left hand, and makes me covetous; my God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. The heart must love something; it will either love that which is good, or that which is evil. “O Lord,” the psalmist seems to pray, “incline my heart in the right direction. Make it lean towards that which is good; cause me to count thy grace better than all the riches of the world.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity,.... As the things of this world, the riches, honours, and pleasures of it, which are all vanity and vexation of spirit; and yet these catch the eye, and allure the heart: and all false doctrines, glided over with the specious pretence of truth; and all false worship and superstition, set off with pomp and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; Or “make mine eyes to pass from beholding vanity.” I am a runner in the race. Do not let me stop to look at anything, but may my eyes pass by vanity. Let me not be like her in the fable who paused to gather the golden apples in the race, and so lost it and was deceived. If the world’s golden apples are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. The psalmist commends all his nature to the care of his God. Just now, he prayed about his feet; then, about his heart; now, about his eyes. We need the sanctifying grace of God in every faculty of our spiritual manhood, lest we go astray one way when we are watching...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; “Do not let me even look at it, for one may look at an ugly thing until the sense of its deformity gradually disappears, and it becomes attractive. Lord, never let me so fix my eyes upon sin that, at last, I come to reckon it a desirable thing.” Psa_119:37. And quicken thou me in thy way. A man who...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Stablish thy word unto thy servant,.... Either God's word of promise, which never fails, is firm and stable in Christ; and the sense is, that God would assure him of the fulfilment of it, and give him a strong faith and firm belief of it; for otherwise the word of the Lord cannot be surer or more stable than it is: or else the word of his grace;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, Make it fast, firm, sure. Psa_119:38. Who is devoted to thy fear. I am established in thee. Establish the Word to me. Thou has bound me fast to thy altar. Oh! give me the fast blessings and sure mercies of David.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. “Lord, make thy Word to stand fast to me, for I do love thee, I am in thy fear. Thy fear has become part of myself.” If you notice, the words “is devoted” are put in by the translators. The verse should read, “Who to thy fear,” as if his whole self had run into the mould and shape of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. That is, “Make thy word to me real and true. Put away my natural skepticism, my proneness to question, my tendency to doubt.” “Stablish thy word.” “Make me to know how firm, how true, how real it is, for I would love it more and more. I do believe it, for I am devoted to thy fear, but...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Turn away my reproach which I fear,.... Either for the sake of religion, which was disagreeable to him; and he might be afraid it would be too heavy for him to bear, and be a temptation to him to forsake the good ways of God: or rather by reason of sin, which brings a reproach on good men; and causes the enemy to speak reproachfully, and is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. I fear lest I bring a reproach upon thee, and then upon myself. Oh! suffer me not to do so. I am not afraid of the reproach of the world. I count the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt. But, oh! let them never have to charge me with sin, and let me not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. “Lord, never let me sin, so as to bring a reproach upon thy holy name! Keep me from doing anything that would grieve thee, and cause thine enemies to blaspheme.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away my reproach which I fear: Are any of you fearing reproach? If so, you may well fear it, for you deserve it; yet, even then, you may ask the Lord to turn it away from you.