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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. This is a very commonplace truth, and yet how seldom do men realize it! They still fancy that, when the night comes on, and they are not perceived by mortal eyes, they may do what they will; but there is no curtain in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. See, my dear brethren, how we dwell continually under the inspection of God. You have seen bees in a glass hive, and watched all their movements, or you have put an insect under a powerful microscope, and examined every part...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. He was no agnostic, he never dreamed of being a know-nothing.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast possessed my reins: “Thou art within the secret portions of my bodily frame.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Hence Galen, the oldest and the best-known of the ancient surgeons, was wont to say that an undevout anatomist must be mad, as another said that an undevout astronomer was mad, for there is such a marvellous display of skill and wisdom, delicacy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast possessed my reins: — “The innermost parts of my being,— thou hast possessed them as thine own. Thou knowest as much about them as a man knows of the rooms in his own house: ‘Thon hast possessed my reins:’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; — That is a very sweet thing for the psalmist to say. Just when he felt stricken with awe by reason of this august attribute of the omniscience of Jehovah, he looks up to his God, and says, “I will praise thee;”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast possessed my reins: “Those secret organs of my body which I cannot see, and whose working I can only imperfectly comprehend.” Psa_139:13. Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. “Even before I came on the stage of action, thou wast exercising wondrous care over me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Anyone who understands anatomy will tell you that man is strangely formed. So fearfully are we made that our life stands in constant jeopardy; it looks as if every breath might be our last, and every pulse might speedily end our life. You cannot examine a blood vessel — especially some of the very small...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will praise thee; — That is a good resolution for each one of us, as well as the psalmist, to make. As God sees me, let me praise him; it will be pleasing to him to hear me praising him: “I will praise thee; “ — Psa_139:14. For I am fearfully and wonderfully made : — Nobody can rightly study the anatomy of the human body, and see the beautiful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought — Embroidered, as it were, with a needle. So extraordinary is the body of man, that it may be compared to the needlework of God: “curiously wrought”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members mere written,— Just as an architect sketches his plan for a building, and specifies so much of this and that, so the psalmist represents God as writing down in a book all the members of our body.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. God made us in his secret workshop by a marvelous method of divine power.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. God mapped out what he intended that we should be, even when as yet we were not in existence, and from our earliest days he cared for us. If we look back upon our infancy, that considerable period of life in which we were utterly helpless, and could do nothing whatever for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. God’s wonderful foreknowledge enabled him to know us even before we knew ourselves, or anyone else knew us; and in the very making of us, the creation of our body and mind and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! How often God has thought of each one of us! Remember that, if you were the only man in all the world, he would not think more of you than he does now that you are only one of myriads of myriads. The infinite mind of God is not divided by the multiplicity of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. Surely Thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: — It must be so; God cannot let sinners continue to live, and provoke him to his face. He must, one day, take down the sword of...