Psalms 116:11

The text reveals the psalmist as having passed through the shadow of that mood of mind to which we give the name of cynicism. The great danger is lest the mood should pass into a habit, lest we should nurse it until it becomes a chronic attitude of mind, and we begin to lose the taste of its bitterness and to take a morbid pleasure in indulging it. Notice one or two practical safeguards against the attitude or habit of cynicism.

I. Let us cherish a modest estimate of our own abilities and our own importance.

II. Let us cultivate the habit of looking out for human excellences, and of putting the most generous construction on human actions.

III. Let us seek to look at all men as through the eyes of Christ.

T. Campbell-Finlayson, Christian World Pulpit,vol. x., p. 353.

References: Psalms 116:11. S. Baring-Gould, One Hundred Sermon Sketches,p. 186. Psalms 116:12. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xvi., No. 910.

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