_Praise the name of the Lord._ HIGHEST SERVICE AND THE HIGHEST BEING I. The highest service in which intelligent creatures can engage. What is praise? Not verbal laudation, however enthusiastic in feeling, appropriate in language, or transporting in music. What, then, is it to praise God? It is to... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high?_ THE GREATNESS AND GOODNESS OF GOD I. His inconceivable greatness (verse 5). 1. The place of His habitation. With great propriety, heaven, and the heaven of heavens, though they cannot contain God’s essence, are represented to us as the pl... [ Continue Reading ]
_He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill _ FROM THE DUNGHILL TO THE THRONE I. Where God’s chosen ones are when He meets with them. 1. Many of them are in the lowest place socially. The Lord excludes no man from His election on account of his rank or condi... [ Continue Reading ]
_He makoth the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children._ INFLUENCE The psalmist must have been thinking surely of the many modes in which the powers are called out and the affections exercised. The guidance of the household, the care of children,--these are certainly the c... [ Continue Reading ]