Psalms 140:1
CONTENTS The Psalmist is here under affliction, looking to the Lord for help and deliverance, and taking comfort in the hope that the Lord hears, and will answer. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS The Psalmist is here under affliction, looking to the Lord for help and deliverance, and taking comfort in the hope that the Lord hears, and will answer. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.... [ Continue Reading ]
It will be truly profitable in this, as in similar psalms, describing the soul under exercises, to view Christ, our pattern, our example, our surety. It is he who hath carried our griefs, as well as borne our sins, and never can a soul find equal relief under any affliction, be that affliction what... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a blessed appeal to the Lord! Where shall an exercised soul go in his affliction, but to a throne of grace? And how sure shall be the Lord's condemnation of the ungodly, when the cry of the sufferer ascends before the throne!... [ Continue Reading ]
Faith and confidence are always suitable accompaniments of prayer. When we have lodged our petitions before the throne, we should, like the prophet, get upon our watch-tower to wait the Lord's answer, Habakkuk 2:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS LORD! I pray thee, never suffer me to think of afflictions or sorrow for them, either in myself or the saints of God, without keeping in remembrance thine unequalled sorrows, wherewith the Lord afflicted thee in the day of thy redemption-work. Was ever sorrow like to thine, thou blessed... [ Continue Reading ]