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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Take that for certain; lay it down as a Scripture proverb. When God sends us a wet time, and we have to sow in the moist foggy atmosphere, never mind; there are brighter days yet to come. We shall reap amid the sunbeams, and carry home our sheaves with joy.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. “He shall doubtless come again with rejoicing.” Now, ye disconsolate workers, ye who have only a handful of seed, ye shall come back with an armful of sheaves. You shall come back rejoicing though you go forth now...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you, to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD and the fruit of the womb is his reward. The psalmist had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. In the case of an arrow, you know it all depends which way you shoot it. Mind, therefore, that you direct your children aright; give them a good start, a true aim from the very first, God helping you, and then they shall fly from you like the arrows of a mighty archer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: That is, when they are like arrows; — not when they are gnarled and knotty, like crooked sticks. When they are unwilling to be tutored and trained, then they become a trial and a trouble; but happy is the man who has a quiver full of arrows; the more the merrier of such children as the psalmist...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. The trials of some of God’s people begin very early. When first we put on the armor of God, the adversary is usually very bitter against us. Some of our old friends and acquaintances cannot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. Like one that has been cruelly scourged until each cut of the lash seemed to make a furrow through the quivering flesh: “The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.” How truly could our blessed Lord utter these words when he was delivered up to wicked men to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. “The Lord is righteous.” There is our hope and comfort. He takes away from them the scourge, and cuts up the cords of which it is made; and those cords with which they would bind the righteous he cuts into pieces, so that they can do nothing against them: “He hath cut asunder the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. So it seems that the one aimed at, and made to suffer, is the Church of God, “Zion.” She has often been scourged and afflicted. Her experience is like that of her covenant Head, and her triumph will be like his triumph.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. So the adversaries of the Church of God may grow as fast as grass on the roof...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. “Sinking, sinking, sinking, — drowning, dying, — hope all but gone, almost everything gone, — yet I have cried unto thee; — with much fear, and little hope, ‘Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. The most eminent of God’s saints have been in the depths; wherefore, then, should I murmur if I have to endure trials? What am I that I should be exempt from warfare? How can I expect to win the crown without first carrying the cross? David saw the depths, and so must you and I. But David learned...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. God’s people have to go into the depths, and God’s people pray in the depths, and often they pray best in the depths. The rarest pearls lie deepest in the sea; and the most precious prayers come out of the depths of affliction: “Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.” Cannot many of you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Judged by ourselves, on the ground of absolute justice, none of us can hope to stand before his judgment seat without being condemned. I trust that we all know and feel that this is true.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. Now a main part of prayer must be occupied by confession, and the Psalmist proceeds therefore: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Lord, Or, “ Adonai,” Sovereign Lord,- Psa_130:2. Hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. “Do hear me, Lord!” What is the use of prayer if God does not hear it? It is said to be a profitable spiritual exercise. So it is, because we believe that God hears it; but apart from that, it would be an idle waste of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? That is to say, apart from Christ, if God exercises his justice to its utmost severity, the best of men must fall, for the best of man, being men at the best, are sinners even at their best estate.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Not one of us, surely. If God were now to deal with us according to our sins, who among us could stand in his presence?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. Never yet has, any poor soul perished that could use such language as this. It may be a long while before you get the full comfort of all the Lord’s promises; but you are sure to have it sooner or later, if you can but...