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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Because when the heart delights in God, then its desires are all such as God can safely grant. He does not say to every man, or even to every praying man, “I will give thee the desires of thine heart,” but “Delight thyself in the Lord,” and then he will.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Delight is a Christian’s duty. To sorrow, to mourn, to despair, — these belong not to the believer: “Delight thyself in the Lord.” Here is a river to swim in, Christians, plunge into it. Here is a bottomless abyss of delights, the person, the grace, the works, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. When all thine heart’s desires are fixed upon him because he is thine heart’s delight, then thou mayest give a loose rein to those desires without any fear that they will run away. When thine heart’s desires are of this sort, thou shalt have them, be they what...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Commit thy way unto the Lord,.... Or "thy works", as in Proverbs 16:3; that is, all the affairs and business of life, which are a man's ways in which he walks; not that men should sit still, be inactive, and do nothing, and leave all to be done by the Lord; but should seek direction of God in everything engaged in, and for strength and assistance...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Commit thy way unto the LORD; Give it up to him to rule it, and to guide thee and lead thee in every step. “Commit thy way unto the Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. It is better to trust our character with God than with the ablest counselor. Scandal may pass over a fair name for a while and cloud it, but God is the avenger of all the righteous. There will be a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Put the helm of your ship into the hand of the Almighty Pilot. Leave the guidance of your pilgrimage to him who has led many caravans across the desert aforetime, and who has never suffered any to perish. What an easy way this is; and yet how hard do we find it to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. It may be very dark with you just now, but God will turn your midnight into noonday. It is only he who can do it, therefore be sure to commit your way unto him; “trust also in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Commit thy way unto the LORD; Blindly, yet believingly, put your hand into his hand, and follow wherever he may lead you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. Rest in the LORD, — Oh, what sweet precepts these are! — easier to read and to hear than they are to practice; yet, if grace be given to us, we shall find them blessedly easy to practice. Surely, if it is easy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Commit thy way unto the LORD; You who are just now in trouble, you who are walking in a rough way, commit that trouble and that way to the Lord. You who are in difficulty as to what is your right way, commit that difficulty to the Lord. Then, of course, you will not need to keep it yourself, nor to trouble your own head about it. It does not need...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Give it over into God’s hands, and then confide in him as completely as a little child confides in its mother. “He shall bring it to pass.” It is quite certain that you cannot “bring it to pass,” so you will be wise if you leave it with him who can do what you cannot.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light,.... That is, the good man having committed his cause to him that judgeth righteously, he will, in his own time, clearly make it appear that it is a righteous one, both to himself and others, in whatsoever obscurity it may have lain; and thy judgment as the noonday; the same as before, unless...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. Leave your character with God; it is safe there. Men may throw mud at it, but it will never stick long on a true believer; it shall soon come off, and you shall be the more glorious for men’s slander.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. Are you misunderstood, misrepresented, slandered, calumniated? Leave it all with your God. Are you now walking in darkness? Trust in him, and he will bring you out into the light in due time. We do not have morning light in the evening; morning light comes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. Thou canst not make the light and the noonday; that is a work that is far beyond thy power; but thy God can give thee both light and noonday. He can clear thy character from any slander that may have befouled it, and he can crown thee with honour and glory in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Rest in the Lord,.... Or "be silent to the Lord" (p); be still, and know that he is God; quietly submit to his will, and acquiesce in all the dispensations of his providence: it does not design a stupid indolence, or a stoical apathy, that we should be like sticks and stones, without any concern at the hand of God upon us; nor an entire silence...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. A fretful spirit soon comes to be an angry spirit, and when we begin to be jealous of evildoers, we are very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way; because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. For yet a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Rest in the LORD, — Not only rest on him, but rest in him, get into such close fellowship with him that you do really “rest in the Lord,” —