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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; “Do not let me even look at it, for one may look at an ugly thing until the sense of its deformity gradually disappears, and it becomes attractive. Lord, never let me so fix my eyes upon sin that, at last, I come to reckon it a desirable thing.” Psa_119:37. And quicken thou me in thy way. A man who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, Make it fast, firm, sure. Psa_119:38. Who is devoted to thy fear. I am established in thee. Establish the Word to me. Thou has bound me fast to thy altar. Oh! give me the fast blessings and sure mercies of David.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. “Lord, make thy Word to stand fast to me, for I do love thee, I am in thy fear. Thy fear has become part of myself.” If you notice, the words “is devoted” are put in by the translators. The verse should read, “Who to thy fear,” as if his whole self had run into the mould and shape of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. That is, “Make thy word to me real and true. Put away my natural skepticism, my proneness to question, my tendency to doubt.” “Stablish thy word.” “Make me to know how firm, how true, how real it is, for I would love it more and more. I do believe it, for I am devoted to thy fear, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. I fear lest I bring a reproach upon thee, and then upon myself. Oh! suffer me not to do so. I am not afraid of the reproach of the world. I count the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt. But, oh! let them never have to charge me with sin, and let me not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. “Lord, never let me sin, so as to bring a reproach upon thy holy name! Keep me from doing anything that would grieve thee, and cause thine enemies to blaspheme.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn away my reproach which I fear: Are any of you fearing reproach? If so, you may well fear it, for you deserve it; yet, even then, you may ask the Lord to turn it away from you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thy judgments are good. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Some people, whom I know, long after the promises, and others long after the doctrines. I hope that they will all get an equal longing for the precepts, for true believers love the precepts as much as they love the promises or the doctrines: “Behold, I have longed after thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: That is a sure sign of a true child of God. Hypocrites may long after the promises, but only the true-born child of God longs after the precepts. If your chief desire is to be holy, that is a desire which comes of the Spirit of God. A bad man may desire to go to heaven; a desperately wicked man may wish to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Quicken me in thy righteousness. This exposition consisted of readings from Genesis 32. and Psa_119:33-40.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. Before I was afflicted I went astray: — Prosperity had been to the psalmist like the gap in the hedge through which the sheep wander from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now have I kept thy word. What a benefit, then, affliction had been to him; and what a blessing it often is to us! So, instead of dreading it, as we usually do, we ought to welcome it, and be on the look-out for the blessing which is to come to us through it. Many a child of God has joined with Dr. Watts in singing, — “Father, I bless thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art good, and doest good; What a delightful description this is of God and his works! Who is good? Our Lord Jesus supplies the answer, “There is none good but one, that is, God.” And his works are like himself: “Thou art good, and doest good.” Psa_119:68. Teach me thy statutes. In the 25th Psalm, David wrote, “Good and upright is the Lord:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The proud have forged a lie against me: They have kept on hammering away until they have finished the falsehood; they have “forged” it, as one forges a deadly weapon in the fire. Psa_119:69. But I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. “It is no use for me to trouble about them. When they have forged one lie, they will probably forge another,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their heart is as fat as grease; Insensible, lifeless; — they have no conscience, no feeling; they are so proud of their prosperity that they are afflicted with fatty degeneration of the heart. Psa_119:70. But I delight in thy law. What a blessing it is for us to find our fatness there, — to delight in the marrow and fatness of God’s law!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. The psalmist, was so impressed with the benefits which he had derived from his afflictions, that he returned to the subject: “It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” There is much teaching power about God’s rod. He always keeps...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. David had a great deal of gold and silver, far more than any of us have; but yet he thought very little of it in comparison with God’s law. Many people despise gold and silver because they have not got any. The fox said the grapes were sour because they were beyond his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. This is a very instructive prayer; the psalmist does as good as say, “Lord, thou hast made me once- make me over again. Thou hast made my body; mould my spirit, form my character, give me understanding.” If God should make us, and then leave us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word. A hopeful godly man is a continual source of joy to other people. When a man can inspire hope in his fellows, and he cannot do that unless he is full of hope himself, he lights a fire of comfort. Bring such a man into a storm, and he helps you to be brave. “They...