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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; What! With his mouth full of gravel stones, and made drunken with wormwood, overwhelmed with sorrow, yet he says, “the Lord is my portion.” Oh, yes, beloved, whatever else we have lost, we have not lost our God. The thieves have robbed us of our little spare cash, but they could not get at the gold that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Do not be in a hurry; do not expect to be delivered out of your trouble the first time you begin to cry unto God. Oh, no: “the Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Even though it be out of the depths of the utmost distress that you seek God, you shall find him to be good to you. He is hard to none, unkind to none. Only go thou, and test him and try him, and thou shalt find that it is even as I say.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. For this yoke, though it may seem to be very heavy for a time, when it has humbled us, and brought us to Christ, will bring us innumerable blessings.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation, of the LORD. God’s time is always the best time. To deliver you just now might be to deprive you of the benefit of the trouble. You must bear it till it produces “the peaceable fruit of righteousness.” When the doctor puts on a blister, we are not to take it off the next...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. And it is not bad for him if he keeps on bearing it in his old age. Our shoulders ever need the yoke; we are such uncertain creatures that we cannot bear too much freedom, even from sorrow.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. When it makes a man get alone, to contemplate and meditate, affliction is already doing him good.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. For the LORD will not cast of for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever: What music there is in that line! He may put thee away for a while, and seem to leave thee; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. That is the way to find it;-not lifting your mouth up to defy the Lord, or to murmur at him, nor yet opening your mouth in boastfulness; but putting your mouth in the dust, that is the way to find hope. A humble, penitent, resigned, silent, submissive spirit will soon find hope.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever: Oh, get a grip of that blessed truth! I pray you, O ye sons of trouble, lay hold of it, and never let it go! The Lord may, to all appearance, cast off for a little while, but he will not cast off for ever.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, That is not God’s way of acting. Tyrants may do so, but the tender, compassionate God, our gracious, loving Father, will never do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. Now notice in the 55th verse, what came to the prophet after all this sorrow.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. Again I say, that is not God’s way of acting.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. He said, “I am cut off,” yet he called upon the name of the Lord out of the low dungeon into which his enemies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Sometimes our prayers get to be so very weak that they are only a breathing; yet we must never forget that, “Prayer is the breath of God in men, returning whence it came,” and “Praying breath is never spent in vain.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Is not that a beautiful description of prayer, when the soul cannot find words, nothing but a “breathing”? Did I say nothing but a breathing? Why, that is the very essence of prayer. “Prayer is the breath of God in man, Returning whence it came.” Vocal sounds in prayer can be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; What a comfort it is that Christ in heaven is our great Advocate, and that he has pleaded the causes of our soul before the throne of God!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: Oh, sweet experience! Cannot you, beloved, say that these words suit you as much as they did Jeremiah? I am inclined to say to him, “They are mine, Jeremiah, they certainly were yours, but I am sure that they are equally mine.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou saidst, Fear not. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. Blessed be his holy name for ever and ever!