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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 27 [A Psalm] of David. The Septuagint interpreters add to this title, "before he was anointed". David was anointed three times, first when a youth in his father's house; but this psalm could not be written before that time, because he had not had then any experience of war, nor could be in any immediate apprehension of it, as here suggested; he was anointed a second time,...
John Gill
One [thing] have I desired of the Lord,.... Not to be returned to Saul's court; nor to his own house and family; nor to have an affluence of worldly riches and honours; but to have constant abode it, the house of the Lord; an opportunity of attending continually on the public worship of God; which is excused and neglected by many, and is a weariness to others, but was by the psalmist preferred to...
Matthew Henry
Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of the death of his parents; but the Jews think he penned it when he was old, upon occasion of the wonderful deliverance he had from the sword of the giant, when Abishai succoured him (2 Sam. xxi. 16, 17) and his people thereupon resolved he should never venture...
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. Is it possible for a man to live in God’s house...
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 may be. The great house of God is everywhere, and...
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 with its parents.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
To behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: “Will not a father take care of his own children? Does not even the feeble hen cover her chickens with her wings, and will not God cover me with his feathers, and cause me to rest in safety under his wings? Ay, that he will.‘In the time of trouble he shall hide me’ away...
Charles H. Spurgeon
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; A true Christian is a man of one idea, but that one idea is the noblest that ever possessed the human mind, or influenced the human heart. This idea is one which not only finds a lodging in his brain, but he carries it on in the practice of his daily life: “One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after.” And what is that...
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. Did David refer to any special spot, or to any one sacred shrine? I think not. He meant that he wished to be always at home with God; and that, you know, we also can be in our own houses or in the fields,...
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. He only wished to be always like a child at home — live in God’s house —no temporal structure; but wherever he was he wished to feel that he was near to God — that all places were the mansions of the great...