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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; — That is a very short measure, the breadth of a hand, the space that we can span with one of our hands, yet that is the true measure of our life: “Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;” — Psa_39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee: — What are seventy or eighty years, even if we live so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou hast made my days as, an handbreadth; This is a very common measure, the breadth of the human hand; and David says that this span is the measure of his life. Some here must surely have spent a great part of that handbreadth; let them and all of us be prepared to meet our God when that short span’s limit is reached. Psa_39:5. And mine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: Like players, or actors, all of us are walking in a phantom show; which is not really anything, but only seems to be. Psa_39:6. Surely they are disquieted in vain: They make a dreadful noise in the tumult of the battle, the din of the exchange, the hum of the streets, the fret and worry of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: He is a shadow walking among shadows. Psa_39:6. Surely they are disquieted in vain: They fret and fume about nothing. Psa_39:6. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. He is busy with a rake, but another will be busy with a fork. What the miser gathers the spendthrift scatters.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: This world is a mere theater, and men strut across its stage, acting their various parts. They come and they go as if they were mere figures moved by invisible wires; the most of men do not live at all, but only seem to live for they have not the true, spiritual, eternal life within them. Every man walks...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: They fret, and fume, and flurry, and worry, and all about what? About nothing. We sometimes say, “It will be all the same a hundred years hence.” Ah! but it will be all the same much sooner than that, when the six feet of earth shall be all our heritage. Psa_39:6. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. There is no vanity in that declaration. Now we are on the rock, now we have come to something real. When a man trusts in the unchanging God, and hopes in the ever-blessed Saviour, he has come out of his state of vanity: “My hope is in thee.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? “Do I wait to gather riches for another to squander? Do I wait to worry myself? Do I wait here to walk as a vanity in the midst of vanities? No, Lord, I am waiting for something better than that!” Psa_39:7. My hope is in thee. Here the psalmist steps off the sand, and puts his foot on the rock. Happy is the man who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord, what wait I for? The psalmist improves as he advances. Now you see that he is cut loose from the world. He has seen the vanity of man, and he has seen the vanity of wealth, so he says, “’Now, Lord, what wait I for? What is there here, in this land of shadows, that I should wait for? Why sit I down where nothing good has ever come,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, Lord,- If all earthly things are nothing but emptiness,- Psa_39:7.What wait I for? “I wait for nothing here, for there is nothing here to wait for.” Psa_39:7. My hope is in thee. Ah! this hope makes life worth living. Now that we hope in God, now that we know that there remaineth another and a better world than this world of shadows, life...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: We had not expected David to offer that prayer, we might have thought that he would say, “Deliver me from all my troubles, and from my many vexing thoughts.” But no, he lays the axe at the root of the evil: “Deliver me from all my transgressions.” There is only One who can do that, even the glorious Son of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: When he gets near to God, he sees himself to be a sinner.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. That is fine silence when a man will not complain because his affliction comes from the hand of God. There is something better even than that when a man breaks the silence, and begins to praise God under the rod. A mute Christian smarting under the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: That is a better prayer than if David had said, “Deliver me from all my sorrows.” Now he has hit the very center of the target: “Deliver me from all my transgressions.” So let each one of us pray at this moment, “O Lord, I do not ask to be saved from thy rod, but I do ask to be washed from my sin. Do what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. It is always a blessed reason for resignation when we can say of any bereavement or affliction, “The Lord has done it.” Shall he not do as he wills with his own? Then let us say, with Job, “The Lord gave, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. This verse should read, “I will be dumb, I will not open my mouth, because thou hast done it.” That is a better silence than the first, for the psalmist is getting into a right state. This is the proper silence, the other was brazen, this is golden. God help us to know how and when to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. You will understand this verse much better if we read it in another tense as it should be: “Now I will be dumb, I will not open my mouth, because thou didst it.” David was wrong the first time when he was dumb, but he is right this second time. Two things may be very like one another...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: Having come to complete submission, he ventures to pray for deliverance from his sorrow. You may pray very boldly, and very freely, when you can truly say, “Thy will be done.” David had said that he would not open his mouth against his God, and now he begins to plead, “Remove thy stroke away from me.” Psa_39:10. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When God smites, he never plays at chastisement, and there are times when his blows are very heavy, and then the smitten one cries out, “Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remove thy stroke away from me: The child of God, who is perfectly resigned to his heavenly Father’s will may yet pray to be delivered from his trouble. Prayer for deliverance from grief is quite consistent with perfect submission to the will of God. We may pray, for Jesus prayed, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me;” but we...