Psalms 84:3

Psalms 84:3

I. The first point in the analogy is that of rest and home home rest. The house of God, the house of the Father, and the elder Brother, and all the children, is, and must be from its nature, a home. All needed rest and comfort is to be found in it.

II. Liberty. To the soul in God's house, as to the bird in its nest, there is a happy combination of rest and freedom. A nest is not a cage. There is rest in revealed truth in Christ, in a reconciled God, in holiness; but there is the freedom of a spirit which abides in these because they are ever true and real to it, and which goes forth at liberty to seek and find all that is in any way good or true.

W. Morison, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xiv., p. 143.

References: Psalms 84:3. H. Macmillan, The Olive Leaf,p. 119; Spurgeon, My Sermon Notes: Genesis to Proverbs,p. 154; Preacher's Lantern,vol. ii., p. 496. Psalms 84:4. Preacher's Monthly,vol. ii., p. 283; G. Brooks, Outlines of Sermons,p. 252.Psalms 84:5. A. Scott, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xx., p. 205.