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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have stuck unto thy testimonies : — I like that word “stuck.” “I have stuck unto thy testimonies.” “I could not be drawn or dragged away from them. They told me of some fine new ideas and modern grand discoveries; but ‘I have stuck unto thy testimonies.’ They came before me with something very artistic and scientific; but ‘I have stuck unto thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have stuck unto thy testimonies: As if I were glued to them — sealed to them. They said I was very old-fashioned. They said I did not keep pace with the times. They said I was not a man of thought. I did not care about that. “I have stuck unto thy testimonies.” Psa_119:31. O LORD, put me not to shame. And he never will. If we stick to him, we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will run the way of thy commandment, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. I will go quicker and faster, I will have more energy, more flaming zeal, in thy service — “When thou shalt enlarge my heart.” O Lord, it is very narrow and very contracted, I cannot think great thoughts, nor do great things, nor believe great promises, unless thou shalt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. “When I get liberty of heart, then will I take as my choice, thy ways.” The Christian is never so much at liberty as when he is under law to Christ. He knows the difference between licence and liberty. He has a liberty to do so he wills, because he wills to do as God wills...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. There is an enlargement of the heart that is very dangerous, but this kind of enlargement of the heart is the most healthy thing that can happen to a man. A great heart, you see, is a running heart. A little heart goes slowly, but an enlarged heart runs in the way of God’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. Give my heart freedom. Knock off my fetters. Take away my heaviness Remove from me my ignorance. Give my soul room, and she will run, but it will be in the ways of thy commandments.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. Here is the art of finally persevering. Here is the way of continuing to the end, and the same shall be saved. We must begin with a teachable spirit. He that is not willing to learn has not begun right. We aught to disciple all nations, but he that will not learn is not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me, o Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. We forget what others teach us, but we never forget what God truly teaches us. He who has been graciously taught will finally persevere.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; — The psalmist is constantly talking about “the way.” We have that expression in the 27th verse, then in the 29th, the 30th, and the 32nd; and now again we have it here: “Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. That is not true or right understanding which permits us to go into sin; those who are really wise in heart hate evil and love righteousness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. A want of understanding is a very great lack. There is little wonder that men turn aside from an outward religion which has never taken possession of their thoughts and minds. If they only subscribe to the creed which they have never studied — if they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. This is the great point as to thorough godliness,—to observe God’s law with our whole heart. In these days, there is much slurring in religious matters; but they who love God aright love him with their whole heart, and they are careful even in what others...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. “Not only teach me the way, but make me to go in it. Take hold of me as a mother does of her little child, and teach me how to walk, and help me in the walking.” Make me to go. It is a feeble word — a most expressive prayer. “Make me to go for therein do I delight.” When a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. And when a man delights to do that which is right, God will help him to do it. The psalmist seems to speak like a little child who has not found the use of his limbs yet. He says, “Make me to go; take hold of me, as a nurse does of her charge, and enable me to take my first...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to go in the path — Or, say — Psa_119:35. Of thy commandment; for therein do I delight. “Make me to go.” Not only show me the way, but make me to go, like a nurse does with a child when she puts her hands under its arms, and strengthens its tottering footsteps. This is a very beautiful expression: “Make me to go.” Lord, we are very weak;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, Bend it that way — incline it. Psa_119:36. And not to covetousness. For, naturally, my heart would go after the world, and cleave to its riches and its treasures, and begin to covet, but, Lord, bend it the other way. If you do not love God’s testimonies, the tendency will be to become a lover of the world....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. “Make me covetous for holiness; let that passion which, in other men, goes after gold and silver, in me run after obedience and fellowship with thee, my God. Incline my heart in another way than nature would incline it; nature puts it on the left hand, and makes me covetous; my God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. The heart must love something; it will either love that which is good, or that which is evil. “O Lord,” the psalmist seems to pray, “incline my heart in the right direction. Make it lean towards that which is good; cause me to count thy grace better than all the riches of the world.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; Or “make mine eyes to pass from beholding vanity.” I am a runner in the race. Do not let me stop to look at anything, but may my eyes pass by vanity. Let me not be like her in the fable who paused to gather the golden apples in the race, and so lost it and was deceived. If the world’s golden apples are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. The psalmist commends all his nature to the care of his God. Just now, he prayed about his feet; then, about his heart; now, about his eyes. We need the sanctifying grace of God in every faculty of our spiritual manhood, lest we go astray one way when we are watching...