CONTENTS This Psalm is without a title, which is not very usual. Perhaps, being intended for general use, it was on that account omitted. It hath much the same strain as the former, for it professeth sure confidence in God; and therefore concludes with an assurance of finally rejoicing in God.... [ Continue Reading ]
If we are on the look-out for Christ while reading this precious Psalm, we shall not be long before we find him, if we are brought under the divine teaching. It is God the Holy Ghost who graciously exerciseth this province; and to him let our eyes be directed. John 16:14. And do we not discover Jesu... [ Continue Reading ]
Of all the subjects to arrest the tenderest affection of the true believer, Jesus's incarnation, and Jesus's condescension in the years of childhood, are among them. Here is an identical person spoken of peculiarly and specially to be regarded. See Psalms 62:8. Oh! Reader! it is blessed to behold Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
There is a beautiful correspondence in this verse between the experience of the believer and his glorious Head. If David was made an outlaw, and hunted as a partridge upon the mountain; if David's Lord was for a sign everywhere spoken against; so is the follower. The prophet had said that Joshua the... [ Continue Reading ]
The last of these verses serves as a clue to explain the others in reference to Christ. Recollect the taunts of the Jews, when the Lord hung on the cross, when they said, He trusted in God that he would deliver him; let him deliver him now, if he will have him; Matthew 27:43. And the burden of sorro... [ Continue Reading ]
I think it would be wrong to break the thread of this most beautiful address, and therefore I have preserved it entire. In any, and in every sense, whether we behold it as the words of Christ, or of David, or of any other follower of Jesus, the doctrine is the same; Christ and his righteousness, Chr... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS LORD Jesus! may I always find grace, while beholding thee going before thy people in all the exercises to which our nature is called, to follow thee on, thou perfect pattern, in all that is amiable and lovely, until I arrive, in thy strength and righteousness, to dwell with thee and in t... [ Continue Reading ]