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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou art my rock and my fortress; Why did David just now pray God to be to him what he here says that God is? It was, surely, in order that he might know experimentally what he already knew doctrinally; he wanted the truth, in which he already believed, to be proven in his own experience, so he prayed to the Lord, “Be thou my strong rock, . ....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. “Lord, my enemies have entangled me; or ever I was aware of it, I was taken in the meshes of their net; wilt thou not pull me out, O Lord? It will need a strong pull, but then, ‘thou art my strength.’ ‘Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. How sweetly and blessedly he pleads! “’Thou art my strength.’ I cannot get out of this net, I am entangled in it; but thou canst pull me out, for ‘thou art my strength.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. Sometimes the believer gets so entangled that he sees no way of escape. He is caught like a bird in the fowler’s net, and he is so surrounded by it that he cries to the Lord, “Pull me out of the net.” He feels that he can only be delivered by the putting forth of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: You notice that this Psalm is dedicated to the chief musician. I have studied these Psalms, not only by the hour, and by the day, but sometimes by the month together. Some of these Psalms have been the pillow for my head at night; others of them, like wafers made of honey, have lain in my mouth till I have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth, I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. Men are sure to have some kind of trust or other on which they rely. In David’s day, some trusted to false gods, others relied upon their own strength; the psalmist does not speak in soft tones concerning these people, but he says, “I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. This is a blessed prayer,— a holy resolution, which we may use every day in the week all through our lives.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: The dying words of Jesus may well be the living words of each one of his redeemed people. We ought continually to commit our spirit into our great Father’s hands, for there is no other place that can be so safe and blessed as between the strong, almighty, never-failing hands of the eternal God. Psa_31:5. Thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. “In Jehovah.” David had no patience with those who trusted in gods of wood and stone; he knew very little indeed of that spurious charity which leads some men to speak respectfully even of idolatry. David was “a good hater”; and there is something gracious about that when the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: That is, those that trusted in their idol gods, which he calls by this contemptuous name, “lying vanities.” David was not very respectful to false religions; he called them vanities and lies, and said, “I have hated them that regard them;”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I trust in the LORD. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; “ ‘Thou hast considered my trouble;’ — thou hast looked at it, weighed it, understood it.” When a wise man gives his consideration to a thing, we respect his judgment; but what shall we say of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: What a grand faith! Should there not sometimes be the sounding of the cymbals even in the midst of our supplications? Though we must often put on sackcloth, yet we must lift up our song of praise whenever we can: “’I will be glad and rejoice,’ — there shall be a reduplication of my delight, — ‘I will be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: David makes the cymbals clash together: “I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: “ Psa_31:7. For thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; It is said to be the highest wisdom to know yourself; but, to my mind, it is a much better thing for God to know you. You may know...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: “No; I may get into the enemy’s prison, but there is no bar to it. ‘Thou hast not shut me up.’ I may seem to get into my enemy’s hand; but he cannot shut that hand.” Truly, it must be so, because David had already put his soul into the hand of God: “Into thine hand I commit my spirit.” How, then,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. “Thou hast given me a broad place to live in, and thou hast given me abundance to eat there.” So David praises and blesses his God; but now see how the note falls. From the highest point of the scale he suddenly descends to the very lowest. “We spend our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: That is better than spending our years in sinning; yet it is a painful experience when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: In this short sentence of four words, — “I am in trouble,” — David gives the text of which the next few verses are a kind of sermon, with divisions and subdivisions. Psa_31:9. Mine eye is consumed with grief, “My eyes seem burnt up with scalding tears.” The salt of our tears wears out the very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: Sighing is better than sinning any day. Though we may deplore that our life melts away in sighs, it is better that it should go so than that it should be wasted in sins.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: Better spend them in sighing than in sinning; yet it is a sad case when we seem to measure our days by the bars of our grief. Psa_31:10. My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. Now he sees to the bottom of his sorrow: “My strength faileth because of mine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. He was in such a sorry plight that men would not own him. They were afraid that they should be disgraced by being found in...