Category: Psalms

Be still… and let the mammoth realities of human lostness and eternal judgment and never-ending joy and God’s universal triumph take hold of you and change your life

February 24, 2012

Psalm 46 tells us that we all have a need to slow down and just “be still.”  We need time for quiet reflection, but oh how little we actually do just that.  John Piper, in a 1991 sermon, “God: Refuge for His People, Exalted Among the Nations” explains: One of the reasons we invest our lives … More Be still… and let the mammoth realities of human lostness and eternal judgment and never-ending joy and God’s universal triumph take hold of you and change your life

Spurgeon: What a glad thing it is that he reigns on a throne which will never pass away

February 23, 2012

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; Psalm 45:6 Charles H. Spurgeon helps us see the importance of God’s eternal throne: What a glad thing it is that he reigns on a throne which will never pass away, for we need both sovereign grace … More Spurgeon: What a glad thing it is that he reigns on a throne which will never pass away

The less confidence we have in ourselves or in anything beside God, the more evidence have we of the sincerity of our faith in God.

February 22, 2012

…for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! Through you we push down our foes; through your … More The less confidence we have in ourselves or in anything beside God, the more evidence have we of the sincerity of our faith in God.

Nothing will be able to stand but that which has the lasting element of faith in God to cement it.

February 17, 2012

“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?         My hope is in you. —Psalm 39:7 ESV From Charles Spurgeon’s comments on Psalm 39, The Treasury of David: My hope is in thee. The Lord is self existent and true, and therefore worthy of the confidence of men; he will live when all … More Nothing will be able to stand but that which has the lasting element of faith in God to cement it.

Where grace does not keep from going down, it shall save from keeping down.

February 15, 2012

The steps of a man are established by the LORD,         when he delights in his way;     though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong,         for the LORD upholds his hand. —Psalm 37:23-24 ESV C. H. Spurgeon comments in “The Treasury of David,”: Condescendingly, with his own hand, God upholds … More Where grace does not keep from going down, it shall save from keeping down.