Psalms 42:1
CONTENTS In this Psalm we have the devout breathings of the soul towards God, opposed by unbelief and distrust. To the chief Musician. Maschil for the sons of Korah.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS In this Psalm we have the devout breathings of the soul towards God, opposed by unbelief and distrust. To the chief Musician. Maschil for the sons of Korah.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Psalm opens with the view of a soul panting after enjoyment and communion with God in Christ. And the most lively images are made use of to denote the insatiable thirst, and vehement desires of a soul so earnest after God. The hart is beautifully chosen to represent this soul, which, after being... [ Continue Reading ]
What a striking difference is here made between the gracious soul longing after Jesus, and the heart that can take up and rest satisfied with anything but Jesus. Ordinances will not fill the soul, unless Jesus be found in the ordinances. It is a God in Christ the soul wants; and when this is not exp... [ Continue Reading ]
Those are the sweetest remembrances, however mingled with tears, which callback past enjoyments of grace and divine fellowship. What can be more refreshing, in a dark hour, when all comfort seems for a season to be withdrawn, than the recollection that in such a place, at such a time, and upon such... [ Continue Reading ]
The holy mourner seems to have found strength from having given vent to his full soul, and therefore expostulates with himself and his unbelief. What! shall I despond, shall I be cast down, who have found God faithful in all that is past? Will Jehovah be less Jehovah to me than to all his people? Wi... [ Continue Reading ]
The holy mourner again seems to feel reviving affliction. But the same looking back from Jordan, to the very spot where now arrived, and every step in the path strewed with mercies, again brings up the soul. Mizar bitters, and Mizar sweets, when blended, make a mixture palatable, and more than palat... [ Continue Reading ]
Surely Christ is here. For of whom but him can it be said, that all God's waves went over him. Jonah, as a type of Christ, cried out of the belly of hell. And David typically considered might say the same, but not in himself. Jonah 2:2. A deluge of sin, and the vials of God's wrath due to sin, were... [ Continue Reading ]
Every verse seems to change the mourner's situation. Here again he takes comfort. The Lord will give songs in the night, and the day shall manifest his praise.... [ Continue Reading ]
In this confidence he will look up to his rock with joy, and he will look round on the insulting foe with indifference. Doth the foe demand where is now thy God? Where should he be, but always engaged for the defense of his people? Oh! the blessedness of staying upon God in darkness, and trusting in... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a beautiful reiteration of what was said before, and every renewed view of a God in covenant, and every renewed remembrance of a God engaged in covenant, brings with it increasing strength to the soul. I shall praise him now, and I shall praise him forever. He is, he hath been, and he will b... [ Continue Reading ]