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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; — This was a gloomy fact to Moses, who lived to be a hundred and twenty years of age, and who probably remembered other men who had been far older than himself. Yet it is well that the ordinary period of human life has been shortened. It is still far too long for those who do evil, though it may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The days of our years are three-score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Speaking of the mass of men, this is all that can be said of them; but as for the godly, where do they fly? They fly into his bosom who has loved them with an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. It has been well said that many men will number their cows, and number their coins, but forget to number their days. Yet that is a kind of arithmetic that would be exceedingly profitable to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. Dread is God’s anger, indeed. Who knows it? None of us do. The lost in hell begin to know it, but it will need eternity for them to learn it all. Oh! I charge everyone here who is unpardoned never to attempt to learn what God’s anger means. It will be an awful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. As he is greatly to be reverenced, so is he greatly to be feared. But the Lord has said of his people, “As I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more cover the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.” Blessed be his name.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to they fear, so is thy wrath. God grant that none of us may ever know experimentally the power of his anger; but may we know it, as a matter of faith, so as to tremble concerning it, and so as to flee to Christ to be delivered from it! But what must it be really to feel the power of God’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Count how many days have gone. Will not the time past suffice us to have wrought the will of the flesh? You cannot tell how few remain, but still, if you live to the longest period of life, taking that for granted which you may not take for granted, how little remains! Oh!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto Wisdom. Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Poor Israel was greatly afflicted. These deaths in the wilderness made her a perpetual mourner, but Moses asks that God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. That is the great matter, after all, to get the heart applied to wisdom, to learn what is the right way, and to walk in it in the practical actions of daily life. It is of little use for us to learn to number our days if it merely enables us to sit down in self-confidence...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. “If they are but few, yet let them be happy. Give us an abundance of thy mercy, O Lord, and let us have it at once, so that, however few our days may he, every one of them may be spent in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, O LORD, how long? It is an earnest prayer, full of grief. The prophet of Israel, Moses, was attending one continual funeral. Whenever the tribes halted, they formed a cemetery, and buried another legion of their dead. I do not wonder that he prays, “Return, O Lord, how long?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy: that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. If they be but few, help us to live happily in them. Grant us the art of thy grace of knowing thyself, the source of happiness, that we may drink of bliss to the full.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Dear young people, here is a suitable prayer for you to present to God: “O satisfy us early with thy mercy.” Believe me, there is no joy for a lad like that of loving the Lord Jesus Christ while...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. “Balance our sorrows with an equal weight of joys. Give us grace equivalent to our griefs; and if thou hast given to us a bitter cup of woe, now let us drink from the golden chalice of thy love, and so let our fainting spirits be refreshed.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Give us measure for measure — sweets in bounty, according to the bitterness. Surely God has done more than this to some of us. We can bless his name because his love has abounded, and he has made our cup to run over with his goodness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. This exposition...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. It is right, then, to pray for joy. Indeed, joy is so conspicuous a blessing to a Christian, it is so closely connected with the healthfulness of all his virtues that he should seek after it until he finds it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, May we have grace to devote ourselves entirely to God’s service, and do the work which he has appointed us to do! Psa_90:16. And thy glory unto their children. If we may not live to see the success of our efforts, may our children see it! If the glory of that bright millennial age, which is certain to come in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. We will do the work, and the next generation shall have the glory, We will be content to wait, plodding on. Jesus will come by and by. “Let thy work appear to us; thy glory to our children.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. “Lord, let us see thy work here! Oh, for thy name’s sake, take thy right hand out of thy bosom, and work mightily in our midst! Withdraw not the working of the Holy Ghost from us thy people! Let thy work of conversion, thy work of edification, thy work of the conquest of the...