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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. They might make pits for lions and tigers, but not for sheep. These pits were not after God’s law. There are still cruel enemies who would, if they could, entrap the people of God; shall not this make us feel what a great mercy it is we have one to be our guardian and defender who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. What a prayer that is! Store it up for use, dear friend, carry it home with you. That is the kind of prayer to be prayed on the roadside, in a railway carriage, ay, even in an accident: “Help thou me.” “Help thou me,” is a wonderful prayer, it seems to turn on a swivel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; There is a fine prayer for us every day in the week: “Help thou me.” Lord, I am helpless if thou do not help me. Thou art the helper of Israel: he that keepeth Israel will not slumber nor sleep. “Help thou me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They had almost consumed me upon earth; “They had almost eaten me up; they had almost burned my life out. Blessed be God, they could not consume me anywhere except upon earth! My immortal part would escape the burning of their coals of juniper. They had almost consumed me, but almost is not altogether.” When God delivers his people from the lion...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. Therefore his enemies could not consume him. As long as the believer holds fast to God’s precepts, he is indigestible even to the old dragon himself; and no adversary shall ever be able to devour him as long as the Word of God is in his heart.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. “They had almost consumed me upon earth.” They seemed as if they would swallow me up entirely, “but I forsook not thy precepts,” and therefore they could not consume me; I was invulnerable and invincible because I stuck to rectitude and kept to thy precepts.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; That is a blessed prayer for us to offer. If any of you feel dull and drowsy, if any of you are heavy and slow in your movements, cry, to the Lord, “Quicken me after thy lovingkindness.” Psa_119:88. So shall I keep the testimony of thy month. Spiritual life is the root of holiness: “Quicken me after thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. Give me more true spiritual life, inspirit me, revive me, ‘quicken me.’ At this very moment, good Lord, if I am cold, and half frozen, and almost dead, yet since I am like the trees, whose life is in them even when they have lost their leaves, give me a new...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. There is not a new divine word, or a new gospel, or a new law; but it is a settled gospel, a settled law, a settled revelation, “settled in heaven,” stereotyped, fixed, made permanent. If perfect, then unalterable, if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: “Thy word is settled,” settled for ever, settled “for ever in heaven.” As God changes not, so the Word which he has spoken to his servants changes not. If the foundations of the faith could be removed, what would the righteous do? What would any of us do?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, everything earthly is changeable; but “Thy word is settled —settled in heaven,” with the eternal settlements. No truth of it can fail, no promise of it can be broken. What a joy this is to our hearts tonight! There is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. “Thy faithfulness is unto all generations.” Thou who wast true to Abraham wilt be true to David; thou who wast true to David wilt be true to me. Thou art ever faithful to thine own nature and Godhead. “Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.” It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: — God, who kept his promise to Abraham, keeps it also to us though we are far down the ages, and he will keep it to our children and our children’s children as long as the world endures, and then for ever and ever. We need not be afraid to leave the generations to come in his hands. “Thy faithfulness is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. This material world whose laws appear to be so fixed, abides only because God has established it; but a day will come in which he will roll these things up like an outworn vesture, and he that sitteth upon the throne...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. That is, God has spoken to nature, and that word has established the earth, and made it to stand securely.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. The fixed laws of the universe have their analogy in the fixed rules of revelation. Are not all material things thy servants, and they are kept; thou wilt therefore keep us.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. It was God’s word that made the sun, and the moon, and the stars; and it is God’s word that bids creation still exist. And that is the almighty word upon which you and I are resting, if we are truly trusting in the living God. “His very word of grace is strong As that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. We may well keep to that which is our life. If God’s precepts breed life in us and then quicken us, and so renew that life, let us stand to them, be obedient to them, and that at all times.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. Notice the love of God’s servant to God’s Word: “Unless thy law had been my delights.” The word is in the plural, for the psalmist not only took a delight in it, but all his delights were there. It was the sea of happiness wherein he bathed his entire soul....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. Let us remember how God’s word has kept some of us alive when we had nothing else to live upon. Hope would have quite failed, and we should have been driven to despair, if it had not been for the precious, priceless word of God.