Psalms 130:1 I. That deep was not merely the deep of affliction. You may see men with every comfort which wealth and home can give who are tormented day and night in that deep pit in the midst of all their prosperity, calling for a drop of water to cool their tongue and finding none. That deep pit... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130:1 There are deep soul-utterances here: there are the trouble and the darkness that often precede or accompany the coming to life again of the soul; there are the cries of pain and anguish which usher back the soul from the world of outer darkness to the blessed light. I. To the majority... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130 This Psalm gives us what we may call the ascent of the soul from the depths to the heights. I. We have the cry from the depths. The depths which the psalmist means are those into which the spirit feels itself going down, sick and giddy, when there comes the thought," I am a sinful man,... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130:3 We have here the second stage in the journey of the soul from the abyss to God. I. Consider the state itself. "If Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" (1) There has been distinct progress here, yet the eyes are still dim with past slumber; the heart is still... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130:3 I. It is when the sinner feels his weakness and his utter inability to deliver himself from the clinging guilt of the past, to shake off by the mere exercise of his will the evil habits and unruly tempers that have got strong hold over him, and to keep himself free from falls for the t... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130:4 Surely it is a time known to most of us when we have, in our self-abasement, felt the mercy of God to be the sole warrant for our return to Him; and with that feeling there have come light and hope. There is the birth of a new love in the heart; and before it all the old loves pale, and... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130:5 In Dr. Kay's translation of the Psalms, these verses are rendered thus: "I waited for the Lord; my soul waited, And for His word I looked earnestly." Mark that past tense, and now the transition: "My soul is to the Lord, More than sentries for the morning, than sentries for the mo... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130:6 No one can read the Psalms and doubt that David knew and loved the Second Advent. And therefore I am inclined to believe that it was of this he spoke in the text. I. Who but a very bad man thinks of the morning with any other than a happy feeling? The man of ardent enterprise chafes a... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130:1 , PSALMS 130:7 I. The first thing that occurs to us in glancing over the Psalms is the great variety of circumstances under which they seem to have been composed. These circumstances embrace the whole range of human life, its joys and its sorrows, its successes and its reverses; while... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 130:8 I. These words speak to us, first, of a Person. Do we know that Person? We are all well acquainted with His history; we believe it, no doubt: but does that faith colour our lives and shape our deeds? That is the question. Is the soul, in its separate individuality, reaching out to a pe... [ Continue Reading ]