Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love, and teach me your statutes. Psalm 119:124 Charles H. Spurgeon said, For our ruler to become our teacher is an act of great grace, for which we cannot be too grateful. Among our mercies this is one of the choicest.
Charles H. Spurgeon comments in The Treasury of David: In the first part of the Psalm, Ps 102:1-11, the moaning monopolizes every verse, the lamentation is unceasing, sorrow rules the hour. The second portion, from Ps 102:12-28, has a vision of better things, a view of the gracious Lord, and his eternal existence, and care … More A Day with the Psalmist
The Lord is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! He is great in the esteem of the gracious, great in his acts of mercy, and really great in himself: great in mercy, power, wisdom, justice, and glory. And he is high above … More Really GREAT! Spurgeon on Psalm 99
C.H.Spurgeon on Psalm 94:9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? He fashioned that marvellous organ, and fixed it in the most convenient place near to the brain, and is he deaf himself? Is he capable of such design and invention, and yet can he … More No Limits on God’s Hearing or Sight
C. H. Spurgeon on Psalm 93 (Treasury of David): Whatever opposition may arise, his throne is unmoved; he has reigned, does reign, and will reign for ever and ever. Whatever turmoil and rebellion there may be beneath the clouds, the eternal King sits above all in supreme serenity; and everywhere he is really Master, let … More Has, Does and WILL Reign!
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:13 Yesterday, a wonderful group of high school students gathered in my home for our weekly early-morning-before-school Bible study. We opened to Psalm 90 and were reminded that as Moses prayed this prayer, he may … More Satisfy us, God!
From the Treasury of David: A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Many attempts have been made to prove that Moses did not write this Psalm, but we remain unmoved in the conviction that he did so. The condition of Israel in the wilderness is so preeminently illustrative of each verse, and the turns, … More Spurgeon’s Intro to Psalm 90
C.H. Spurgeon on Psalm 89: 33……Nevertheless. And a glorious nevertheless too! Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him. O glorious fear killing sentence! This crowns the covenant with exceeding glory. Mercy may seem to depart from the Lord’s chosen, but it shall never altogether do so. Jesus still enjoys the divine favour, and we … More Nevertheless…
C.H. Spurgeon comments on Psalm 89:1 I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. Note, that in this second sentence he speaks of faithfulness, which is the mercy of God’s mercies—the brightest jewel in the crown of goodness. The grace of an unfaithful … More God’s Faithfulness, Our Anchor
Psalm 87:7 Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.” In his commentary on Psalm 87, in The Treasury of David, Spurgeon says that this verse reminds him of the hymn, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” by Robert Robinson: Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing … More Come Thou Fount
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