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Psalms 39:1

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I said, I will take heed to my ways, It is not everybody who would like to recollect what he has uttered; but David could remember and dwell upon what he had formerly said: “I said, I will take heed to my ways.” That is a good thing to do. He that does not take heed to his ways had need do so. Heedless and careless, and heedless and graceless, are...

Psalms 39:1

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I said, “I thought it, and at last I said it. I resolved; I determined upon it; and I registered the vow.” Psa_39:1. I will take heed to my ways, Men never go right by accident, he who is heedless is graceless. A holy life is a life that comes of taking heed. Psa_39:1. That I sin not with my tongue: He who keeps his tongue can keep all the rest of...

Psalms 39:1

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. This is what David said; what he had deliberately resolved upon and solemnly determined in his own mind: “I said, I will take heed to my ways.” That is a good thing for all of us to resolve and to say: “I will take...

Psalms 39:1

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue:-- This government of the tongue is a most important part of our ways; it in a very essential part of holy discipline, yet we have heard of one saint who said that he had lived for seventy years, and had tried to control his tongue, but that he had only begun to understand the art...

Psalms 39:2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I was dumb with silence, “I did not speak, I could not speak: ‘I was dumb with silence.’” Psa_39:2. I held my peace, even from good; David’s conduct proves that, even when we are doing something which is right, we are apt to overdo it, and so we stray into a vice while pursuing a virtue. You can run so close to the heels of a virtue that they may...

Psalms 39:2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I was dumb with silence, Ah, me! How often we do wrong even when we try to do right! He tried not to sin with his tongue, so he was silent, but silence itself may be a sin of the tongue. God forgive our idle silence, and silence our idle words! I do not think we often sin this way; but silence may sometimes be more wicked than speech even though...

Psalms 39:2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I was dumb with silence, — “I was as silent as if I had been dumb. I did not say a word.” It seems to me that this silence of the psalmist was partly sullen and partly judicious: “I was dumb with silence,” — Psa_39:2. I held my peace, even from good; — He was a total abstainer from all speech. Perhaps he felt that he could not speak a little...

Psalms 39:2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. We all know that, unless our grief can find expression, it swells and grows till our heart is ready to break. We have heard of a wise physician who bade a man in great trouble weep as much as ever he could. “Do not restrain your grief,” he said, “but let it all...

Psalms 39:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: There was an inward friction, his griefs kept revolving till his heart grew hot; this heat generated fire, which burned so vehemently that, at last, the psalmist could not help himself, and he was obliged to speak. Psa_39:3. Then spake I with my tongue, Whether rightly or wrongly, he...

Psalms 39:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

My heart was hot within me, The fire was kept in his heart; it was not allowed space to break forth, so his heart was hot as an oven. Psa_39:3. While I was musing the fire burned: He grew so hot with grief, that he was compelled to speak. Psa_39:3. Then spake I with my tongue, I am not sure that he did not sin then. We sin if we are silent, and we...

Psalms 39:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: — While he was musing, his heart was fusing, and there was much that was most confusing to him. He saw the prosperity of the wicked, and the oppression of the righteous. He heard the reproaches of the ungodly, and he felt the stings of affliction and trial in his own soul. So, as he...

Psalms 39:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, He could not hold his peace any longer; it would have been well if he had done so, for he uttered an unwise prayer when be spake with his tongue.

Psalms 39:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

LORD, If you must speak, address your words to the Lord. So David does, he does not speak to the wicked, but he prays to God most holy. Psa_39:4. Make me to know mine end, Did he wish to die? Perhaps so; you remember that one of the two men who never died once prayed that he might die. Elijah did so; and David does so here, I think, if I put a...

Psalms 39:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Lord, make me to know mine end, It is greatly wise for us to be familiar with our last hours. There is much to be discovered in the shroud, the mattock, and the spade. Psa_39:4. And the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. A bubble is more substantial than I am, — a little handful of dust, easily blown to the wind,...

Psalms 39:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

LORD, — That was a good beginning of David’s speech. When we turn our burning words towards God, and not towards men, good will come of them. David’s hot heart finds a vent Godward. This was the wisest thing that he could do, cry unto his God. “Lord,” — Psa_39:4. Make me to know mine end, — Did David mean to pray, “Let me die,” like Elias did? I...

Psalms 39:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

LORD, make me to know mine end, That is what you and I are apt to say when we get into a little trouble; we want to die, and get away from it all. We say that we long to be with Christ, but I am afraid that it is often only a lazy wish to share the spoils of victory without fighting the battle, to receive the saints’ wages without doing the...

Psalms 39:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And mine age is as nothing before thee: All that exists is as nothing before God. What are even the elder-born of angels but the infants of an hour in contrast with the ages of eternity? The world itself is only like a bubble blown yesterday, the sun is as a spark struck from the anvil of omnipotence but a few days ago; and as for man, compared...

Psalms 39:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; How short is our life! It is just a span, and no more, Psa_39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee: What multitudes of generations of men have come and gone! An angel might have cried, long before, “Man is but a thing of yesterday compared with the eternal God.” God created the first star that...

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