_How excellent is Thy name in all the earth! _ DAVID’S POETICAL SENSITIVENESS In all probability this Psalm is the first, or at all events one of the very first, David ever wrote. It breathes the spirit of those lonely nights which he must so often have passed keeping watch over his father’s sheep... [ Continue Reading ]
_Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou ordained strength._ THE STRENGTH OF FEEBLE INSTRUMENTALITIES The sudden drop from the glories of the heavens to the babble and prattle of infancy and childhood is most impressive, and gives extraordinary force to the paradox that the latter’s witne... [ Continue Reading ]
_When I consider Thy heavens._ CONSIDERING That is what people will not do. They are thoughtless, superficial, frivolous; they do not sit down and put things together and add them up, and ask the meaning of the poetry of the total. 1. “When I consider”--I become a new man, much larger, nobler, sai... [ Continue Reading ]
_For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels._ MAN A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS While the Psalmist refers primarily to man, we learn from St. Paul that the text has a further reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. I. The text, as spoken of men. Perhaps it was not so much in nature as in p... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou madest him to have dominion._ MAN’S DOMINION Dominion is a far-reaching word. We have not yet thrown our measuring line upon it, and realised all its suggestions and inspiration. Is there not a stirring sometimes in the heart, which means: I was meant to be a king; I was meant to be master; I... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou hast put all things under his feet, etc._ CRUELTY TO ANIMALS If the lower creation were not too insignificant or worthless to contribute to the glory of Jesus, they cannot be deemed too insignificant for Him to care for, and for us to protect and honour. We know it is said of His saints that... [ Continue Reading ]