_Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness._ A GENTLE REMONSTRANCE This Psalm is mainly a gentle, earnest remonstrance with antagonists, seeking to win them to a better mind. The cry for an answer by deed is based on the name and on the past acts of God. The pronoun “my” is best attached to “r... [ Continue Reading ]
_Him that is godly._ THE GODLY MAN “The godly.” They are evidently a distinguished, a peculiar people. They have undergone a process of change. There may be a very exalted scale of morals observed by men, but still it amounts not to the scriptural idea of godliness, for all that comes within the r... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stand in awe._ AWE OF GOD All sin is an offence against God, and nothing tends more powerfully to correct it than worthy thoughts of God, and of our relation to Him. They who have no habitual thought of God, who set Him not before them in their daily walk, find no principle and no power present wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord._ SACRIFICE AND TRUST What are we to understand by this expression, “The sacrifices of righteousness”? 1. By way of specification. The sacrifices of righteousness are righteous sacrifices, sacrifices and oblations under the la... [ Continue Reading ]
_There be many that say, Who win show us any good?_ SEEING FOR GOOD Truth and happiness go together, like light and heat in the sun. God is the fountain of blessedness, because He is the Father of lights; so that the only proper answer to the question, “Who will show us any good?” is, “Lord, lift... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased._ THANKSGIVING FOR HARVEST 1. The joy in harvest is based on the successful result of labour. Labour is God’s law, and obedience to it secures a result corresponding to the means used, and that resu... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for Thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety._ SIGNS OF A QUIET SPIRIT In the text are two subjects. David’s privilege or happiness itself. The ground or foundation of this his happiness. In the letter and proposition of it, we have the comfortablenes... [ Continue Reading ]