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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. Blessed meditation! The lack of meditation is one of the faults of the days in which we live, we are so very busy that we have not time to study God’s Word; but the psalmist said, “I will meditate in thy precepts:” that is the secret strength; “and have respect unto thy ways:” that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. An excellent way of keeping the life clean is to keep the thoughts clean. Our boys .are brought to prison by reading the abominable trash that is poured forth for juveniles; and many and many a crime has been the result of the fiction of the present day. It is often not only light...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy way. Meditation treads the wine press and gets the juice out of the grapes. A man may read too much if he reads without meditation. “I will meditate.” It is the harvesting by reaping of what we have sown by reading.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. So may each one of us resolve. Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. God grant that we never may.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. I will take a deep pleasure in them, and I will find an intense joy in every pondering of them. “I will not forget thy word.” I will never let it go out of the precincts of my memory: I will recall again and again. I will always have a text of thy precious Book ready to my tongue.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. Does it want much grace, then, to keep a child of God alive — even to keep him alive? Yes, it does. Little grace will be of no use to us. We must have great grace, for our needs are great. Sometimes our troubles are great: at other times our temptations are great. We are always...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. Give me much of thy comfort, royally of thyself: deal bountifully with me: I have great necessities, am a mass of wants, therefore, “ Deal bountifully with me that I may live.” And I have great tendencies to wander. Great risks and perils. Give me abundance of grace that I may...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. O Lord, I am thy servant; yet, I pray thee, do not pay me wages according to my deserts, but according to the greatness of thy mercy, “deal bountifully with thy servant.” Little mercy will not be enough for such great sins and such great needs as mine. Deal very generously with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. They are there, but I cannot see them unless thou open my eyes. It is not that thy Word is dark, but that my eyes are dim. Yea, by nature they are blinded altogether. Oh! thou, who art the great Physician of the blind, open thou my eyes.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. The wonders are there: cause me to behold them. A man may have a fair landscape before him, rich in all beauties of form and colour, but if his eyes be closed, what is he better for it?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. This is one of the first parts of God’s bountiful dealings with us. There is no mercy that is so great as mercy to one’s own person, to one’s own eyes, for instance, which are such essential parts of ourselves. Lord, when thou art dealing bountifully with me, I do not ask for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. Do you see the drift of that? He says, “I .am a stranger here. Then, Lord, if thou do not become, and continue to be, my acquaintance, I am altogether alone.” It is true of the Christian that he cannot find anything here that can satisfy his soul. He must, therefore, have the Lord,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. “I am a stranger in the earth.” I do not belong now to it: I am born and bound for heaven: I am a pilgrim here: men do not understand me, neither have I any settled business here. “I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.” Oh, remember that I am thy alien,thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me, Humane men deal kindly with exiles; God has commanded us to be generous to strangers, and he will certainly be so himself. Lord, because of thy love, I find myself like an exile among the sons of men; but be not thou thyself strange to me. What should I do, in this world, without...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. We cannot always say that, for we sometimes wish that our hearts would break. Sometimes we sing: — “My heart rejoice or ache: Resolve this doubt for me; And if it be not broken, break And heal it if it be.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. Broken souls are many: but not on this account! Oh, how few are in danger of breaking, through such a longing as this ! Would God there were many more that did sigh and cry after the Word of God; for longings such as these are sure to lead to an earnest search, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. God cannot bear the proud; it is very seldom that they can bear one another; and if proud men loathe pride as they see it in others, you may rest assured that the good and great God will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. A proud man is surely a sinful man. He may think himself a righteous man, but he cannot be so. He has gone far astray from the very essence of God’s law, which is that he should walk humbly with his God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. Wherever there is pride in the heart, there is sure to be error in the life. A proud man is wrong, to begin with, and as long as he continues proud, he must be wrong. It is not possible for him to be right. God has rebuked him, and God has cursed him. How wise it...