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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? If all your light comes from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, you need not be afraid of losing your light. “The Lord is my light and my salvation.” If your salvation comes from the God of salvation, if it is wrought out by the Saviour, our Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? A sort of trembling seems to have been creeping over him, so he argues thus with his own heart, “Why should I be dismayed? Am I afraid of coming darkness? ‘The Lord is my light.’ Do dangers surround me? The Lord is my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? David leaves the broken cisterns of the earth, which can hold no water, and goes directly to the divine fountain-head. He does not say, “Ahithophel is my light, Uzzia, the Ashterathite, is my friend and my joy; but he says,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord is my light and my salvation; First comes light, and then salvation. We are not saved in ignorance; the knowledge of our sinfulness is revealed to us, we discover our true condition in the sight of God, and then we perceive the mercy and the love of God. We see first the light and then the fullness of salvation, for this is not a matter...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my light and my salvation; I find no comfort anywhere else but in him, and expect salvation from none but himself. “The Lord is my light and my salvation.” Psa_27:1. Whom shall I fear! the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid! Who can stand against him? What strength can resist his strength? What darkness can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. They were both wicked in character, and fierce in disposition, for they had resolved to eat him right up, as wild beasts might have done. They were successful as far as they were permitted to go, for he says, “They came upon me.” Yet he needed...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. This is the record of the psalmist’s past experience. David was a soldier, and he had a soldier’s dangers and a soldier’s deliverance’s; and here he writes the history of his battles. These are dispatches from the field. When the psalmist’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. “They were very fierce. Like cannibals, they meant to eat me right up. They would not have spared me. They ‘came upon me’ in such a fashion that I was taken at a disadvantage. I seemed to be altogether in their power, but ‘they stumbled and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. If we are on the Lord’s side, discomfiture of our enemies shall be total and final; they shall fall to the ground. They may be very many, and very varied, so as to be described under two names, — enemies and foes; they may be very ferocious, so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Good men have enemies because they are good men. There are two classes in the world, — the righteous and the wicked, — the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent; and you know that, even in Eden, the Lord said to the serpent, “I will put...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. “They wanted to destroy me altogether — to eat me right up.” If they did not destroy me, it was not from want of heart to do it, nor even from want of power, for there were many of them. But I had not to fight, for they fell before they reached...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; — It is then that we mostly do fear, before the fight begins when the enemy lies encamped against us. We do not know how strong is the foe, nor what mischief he is going to do to us, and the uncertainty often brings a dread with it; yet, says the psalmist, “though an host should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. The past gives him confidence both for the present and for the future. Happy is the man who can fall back upon his past experience, not to make of it a bed to lie upon, but to make of it a lever with which to lift his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. “God has not changed. My enemies are not more powerful than they were; and if they should become so, omnipotence will still overmatch them. I will therefore be confident, and calm, what may.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. True and simple faith in God alone always begets courage. It is the man who is trusting in the creature who is the coward; but he who truly trusts in the Creator becomes a hero. Faith is the food upon which God would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. You know that, usually, we do fear just before the battle begins, — when we see the enemy encamped against us. We do not know what they are going to do, and we are sure to imagine the very worst; but such was David’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. Let them come on. They fell before: the, will fall again. Let them come on. God was strong enough to meet them and overthrow them once. He will do it again. Therefore, why should we fear? Ah! dear brethren, those that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; — It is a grand thing to get your heart so focused that it has but one desire, and then to be aroused to the practical pursuit of that one object. Psa_27:4. That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. David wanted to spend his days in the house of his God, and we also may do the same, not only in the place that is used for public worship, but wherever we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, “That, wherever I am, I may be at home with God, — that I may feel, in every place, that I am still in his house, — never away from home, —whether in the wilderness or in the city, still dwelling like a child at home...