Psalms 77:10

Psalms 77:10

There are three kinds of speaking in this Psalm: speaking to God, speaking to our fellows, and speaking to one's self.

I. To how many of our thoughts, and feelings, and spiritual utterances may we apply these words: "This is my infirmity"! Of hard thoughts of God, of dark views of His providence, of distrustful feelings towards God, and often of corresponding thoughts, and views, and feelings towards men, we may say, "This is my infirmity." And the weakness of the body, faults in the spirit, and Satanic influence are the fountains and the causes of these utterances. The Psalmist resolves, as an antidote to despondency and fear, to bring the past and the present, recollections and existing consciousness, the day of his trouble and years of joyousness, the right hand of the Most High and his enemies and troubles he resolves to bring them into comparison, to bring them together. "I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High."

II. These words, "the right hand of the Most High," represent the power of God as manifested in all sovereignty and sufficiency on behalf of those who trust in Him. (1) God works. Power is continually going out of Him. (2) God works perfectly. His work is right-hand work. (3) He works as the Most High. He fills the above as well as the beneath. There is One higher than the Law: the Lawgiver.

III. Notice two or three brief exhortations springing from this subject. (1) Commune with your own heart; talk to yourself. (2) Give memory its full share of work in your religious life. (3) Avoid contracted views. Look at today, but look at the years. Look at second causes, and agents, and means; but ever consider the right hand of the Most High.

S. Martin, Penny Pulpit,No. 878.

References: Psalms 77:10. S. Cox, Expositions,3rd series, p. 152.Psalms 77:11; Psalms 77:14; Psalms 77:19; Psalms 77:20. G. Forbes, The Voice of God in the Psalms,p. 251.Psalms 77:13. H. Melvill, Sermons,vol. ii., p. 297.