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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Oriental monarchs were very earnest to have good post arrangements. They sent their decrees upon swift dromedaries. They can never be compared with the swiftness of the purpose of God’s decree....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. An old commentator says, “Generally, if you get quantity, you do not get quality; but when you deal with God, ‘he filleth thee,’ there is quantity, ‘with the finest of the wheat,’ there is quality.” You get both in God, an abundance of the best.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. There is generally peace where there is plenty. Dogs fight when there are few bones, and when God’s people are well fed, they do not so often quarrel with one another. If they are fed with the finest of the wheat, there will be peace in their borders.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. When the Church is peaceful, and when the gospel fills the saints, and they feed upon it, and feel it to be the very finest of the wheat, should not God be praised? Does not the hallelujah come in here again? Praise ye the Lord for spiritual meat, and spiritual peace,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Great kings have tried to make their postal arrangements act with rapidity; in the olden time, they employed swift dromedaries for this purpose, but “his word runneth very swiftly.” When God has a message to send, he can flash it by lightning, or dispatch it in an instant...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. He giveth snow like wool: Light and fleecy, it covers the plants, and protects them from the cold; the snow is a kind of garment to them from the frost.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Oriental kings made a point of having swift postal arrangements by which they could send their decrees to the extremity of their dominions, sometimes on horses, and sometimes on swift dromedaries; but God’s command, God’s decree, God’s “word runneth very swiftly.” He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: Men say, “it” snows; but what “it” is it that snows? The Psalmist rightly says of the Lord, “HE giveth snow.” They say that according to the condition of the atmosphere, snow is produced; but the believer says, “He giveth snow like wool.” It is not only like wool for whiteness; but it is like it for the warmth which it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: It is as soft as wool, and, like wool, it is a covering, and keeps the earth warm in the bitter frosts, and saves the plants from death: “He giveth snow like wool.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? I want you to notice how, in the olden days, good men felt God to be very near. They thought that all this was caused by God: “he giveth snow; he scattereth hoarfrost;” and they speak of “his ice, his cold.” It is a poor progress that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. You must often have been reminded of white ashes as you looked at the hoarfrost in the early morning.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: — People say, nowadays, “It snows.” They said among the Hebrews, “HE giveth snow.” There seems to be a tendency to get further and further away from God in these very learned days. If this is all that science can do for us, — put God further off, — it shall be our injury rather than our benediction. “He giveth snow like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. The Hebrews saw God in all the phenomena of nature; let us do the same. Let us attribute every snow-flake to the divine hand, and every breath of frost to the divine mouth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? None can stand before his heat; but when he withdraws the fire, and takes away the heat, the cold is equally destructive. It burns up as fast as fire would. “Who can stand before his cold?” If God be gone, if the Spirit of God be taken away from his church, or from any of you,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Hailstones, like little pieces of bread, broken off and scattered abroad,- Psa_147:17. Who can stand before his cold? In all this, the Lord is really fattening the soil, and preparing food for man and beast in the coming spring and summer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He casteth forth his ice like morsels :-The hailstones come like morsels, — like crumbs, that is the word, — like crumbs of ice; or, as the ice is formed upon the lake, it comes like crusts. Either way, “He casteth forth his ice like morsels:” — Psa_147:17. Who can stand before his cold. If God displays himself as fire, who can stand against his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: It is just as easy for him to send warm weather as to give us the chill of winter.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them; he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. The frozen waters were hard as iron; the south wind toucheth them, and they flow again. What can God not do? The great God of nature is our God. Let us praise him. Oh, may our hearts be in a right key tonight to make music before him!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. That is the best news of all, that God reveals himself to his children. All he works in nature is eclipsed by what he does in grace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: He has only to speak a word, and the ice, the snow, the hoarfrost, and every sign of winter will disappear, and we shall begin to swelter in the heats of summer. Psa_147:18. He causeth his wind to blow, That is all, — Psa_147:18. And the waters flow. Ice-saws and axes could not set free the frozen rivers...