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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Now he has got out of the temptation. He is not going to seek for prosperity that he may rival the wicked in their wealth. No! He sees that, in having God, he has all he wants. Even though he should continually be plagued all the day long, and chastened every...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My flesh and my heart faileth,.... Either through vehement desires of communion with God deferred, see Psalms 84:2 or through afflictive dispensations of Providence, being smitten and chastened continually, Psalms 73:14, or through inward trials and exercises, by reason of indwelling sin, temptations, and desertions: or rather the words are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. That is, setting their hearts on unlovely things, and forgetting to love God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. To love the world, to love riches, to love sin, to love self, this is to be unfaithful to our marriage covenant with God; let such conduct never be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My flesh and my heart faileth: I see what a poor thing I am. I allowed my flesh and my heart to get the mastery over me, and I got caught in this trap.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. A strong word, but none too forcible; for every heart that seeks delight away from God is an unchaste heart. It has got away from true purity even for a moment in pouring out its...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For, lo, they that are far from thee,.... Who are alienated from the life of God, far from the law of God, and subjection and obedience to it; and from righteousness either moral or evangelical, and from the love and fear of God, and worship of him: shall perish; not merely at death, as even righteous men do, but be lost eternally: thou hast...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But it is good for me to draw near to God,.... In prayer, and other acts of religious worship; to attend the word and ordinances in the sanctuary, where the psalmist had lately been delivered out of a sore temptation, and so had a recent experience, which was fresh in his mind, of the advantages of such exercises; for it is both an honourable...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. The Psalm ends jubilantly, as it began, though part of it had been in a minor key.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works. Thus, you see, the psalmist went down to the depths, but he came up again all right, and his heart was made glad in the Lord his God. So may it be with any of us who, like him, have been envious at the foolish, when we have seen the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 73; Psa_37:1-10.