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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, God knows not only men’s words and acts, but their thoughts also. God knows thoughtful men, the best sort of men, when they are at their best, when they are thinking; and what does God think of the thoughts of man? Psa_94:11. That they are vanity. Yet people talk about the thoughtful men of the age, and want...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; Here is the truly blessed man; not the boaster, not the infidel, not the proud thinker, but the divinely-chastened man. He is sore through the chastening of the Lord, his bones are full of pain, his heart is heavy, and his home, perhaps, as a place of torture to him;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teach him out of thy law; These are two things that go well together, — a rod and a book; no man ever learns much without both rod and book. “Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest.” The book is never properly understood without some touches of the rod, but the book must be there also: “and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou mayest give him rest; from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. Christ has gone to prepare heaven for his people; it is a prepared place for a prepared people. So is it with the ungodly and their eternal inheritance, it is a prepared place, “prepared for the devil and his angels,” and when men make themselves...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou mayest give him a rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. In these days, the quiet virtues are not prized as much as they ought to be. Men are always busy, they must be ever on the trot; but blessed is the man who is so taught by the book and by the rod that he comes to a holy quietism, and learns to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. If any of you are deeply troubled, I counsel you to get a hold of this promise. Perhaps it seems to you as if two seas of sorrow had met around you and that you were in a whirlpool of trouble; then I say again, lay hold of this text, and grip it firmly: “Jehovah...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the LORD will not cast off his people, He may cast them down, but he will never cast them off. Psa_94:14. Neither will he forsake his inheritance. Even men will not give up their inheritance. This is especially the case among the Jews; you remember how Naboth would not sell his inheritance, he would sooner die. And the Lord will not forsake...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will rise up for me against the workers of iniquity? Well, David, you may ask the question; but we cannot tell you who among your fellow men will stand up for you. It sometimes happens that God’s people...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. The wicked may be the upper spokes of the wheel just now, but they will be the lower spokes before long. Truth may be in the mire today, but she shall be upon them tomorrow. The revolutions of the wheels of providence produce strange changes. Wait; work;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? The psalmist appeals for helpers, but he gets no response from man; and sometimes the man of God will have to stand alone, and that is an education for him. Blessed is he who has learned to hang on the bare arm of God; he is better off...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. If it had not been for God, he would not only have had no hand to help him, but not even a voice to speak for him. He might not have suffered quite in silence, because he would have himself spoken; but what he would have said would only have made the matter worse. What would he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. You may be one of the best of God’s servants, and yet that may be your experience. Here is another piece of testimony in which many of us can join: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I said, My foot slippeth; “It is going, it is gone; my foot is now slipping,” — what then? Psa_94:18. Thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. God is grand at holding up his people in slippery places, and not only in slippery places, but when their feet actually do slip. When they think that they are gone, they are not really gone. “Underneath are the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. “My foot had slipped from under me, I was down; and then, even then, thou didst put underneath me thine everlasting arms. ‘Thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the multitude of my thoughts within me — “I cannot collect my thoughts, they will not be gathered into orderly array, they rush to and fro, there is a multitude, a mob of them.” It is good to have thoughts, but sometimes you may have too many of them; and they may come helter-skelter, blasphemous thoughts, perhaps, despairing, proud,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. “My thoughts” — so some read this verse, — “seem intertwisted and interlaced like the many boughs of a tree. I cannot make them out myself, they are in such a tangle.” But the bird has learned to sit among the boughs, and sing: “Thy comforts delight my soul.” There are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? Oh, how strong are the wicked! They think they can have everything all their own way, that they can make what laws they like, and crush out anything that they despise. Yes, there are many thrones of iniquity, but God has no fellowship with them; and if God has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? Lord, art thou on their side? Oh, no, and as thou art not on their side, I care not who is. So long as thou wilt not aid iniquity or help wrong-doing, I will fight the battle through.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. Agreed about nothing else, they all agree against Christ and against the holy seed: “the soul of the righteous.” They would blot out the righteous from under heaven if they could.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge. He gets away unto his God as he had been accustomed to hide in the cave of Adullam out of reach of his foes; and then he sits down in peace to sing.