Psalms 31:5 _(with Luke xxiii., ver. 46, and Acts vii., ver. 59)_ I. Regard the words as supplying the true watchword of life. When we commit our spirit into the hand of God, three results accrue. (1) We approach the duties of life through a series of the most elevating considerations, (_a_) We ar... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 31:15 I. Our times are in God's hand in this sense, that He alone has chosen for us the period of the world in which we should live. Feeling that God has placed us in this age that we may make our impress on it, we should prepare ourselves faithfully for doing its work. II. Again, our circu... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 31:16 I. The smile of God has its moving cause in the infinite heart of God. II. The smile of God comes from His heart, and thus from His love and His blessedness. III. The smile of God is essential to us, and it alone is sufficient for us. With the smile of man and without the smile of Go... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 31:19 This text is the expression of a Divine law, the law of God's wise reserve in dispensing His favours. I. There are certain great blessings of God which no man is able to receive at once without preparation. II. A part of this preparation depends upon ourselves; therefore it is someti... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 31:20 By "the pride of man" and "the strife of tongues" we may understand the whole of that cruel and disturbing interference of one man's life with another's which may take such an endless variety of forms. I. There are two different attitudes which almost all men take towards the tendency... [ Continue Reading ]