We are not told who penned this psalm or upon what occasion it was penned. It is a melancholy psalm which can be attributed to David and his afflictions and yet to the church of God in general. The Spirit of prophecy here had in view the captivity of Babylon or the sufferings of the […]
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This psalm is similar to the last Psalm as David returns to his present malady using the same words. Christ Himself, who had the Spirit without measure, prayed a second and third time “saying the same words,” Matt. 26:44. In this psalm, David appeals to God concerning the injuries that were done to him and endeavours
Psalm 43 – Send Out Your Light and Your Truth Read More »
In this Psalm is the conflict between reason and faith, reason objecting and faith answering. Faith begins with holy desires towards God and communion with Him. We are not told who penned this psalm, but it was most probably David at a time when, either by Saul’s persecution or Absalom’s rebellion, he was driven from
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From 1976 to 1981 I attended St. Patrick’s primary school in Rochdale, Lancashire. In my upper primary years one of my teachers was called Mr. Simkins. Once he had set us work, he would call us up to his desk one by one to have us read to him as we progressed through our Peter
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God’s kindness and truth have often been the support and comfort of the saints when they have had the worst of man’s unkindness and treachery. David found it to be on a sick-bed. He found his enemies very barbarous, but his God very gracious. Is any afflicted with sickness? let him sing the beginning of
Psalm 41 – O Lord, Be Gracious to Me Read More »
David penned this psalm when he had been delivered from some great trouble by the grace and power of God. The same Spirit that composed his praises for that deliverance was at the same time, a Spirit of prophecy, testifying of the sufferings of Christ. This Psalm teaches us that if we embrace the prophecy
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David seems to have been in dire straits when he penned this psalm. It is with some difficulty that he conquers his emotions and composes his spirit. This is a funeral psalm and teaches us the brevity, uncertainty and calamitous state of human life. Those who are in need of God’s comforts will find this
Psalm 39 – Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness Read More »
This Psalms is full of grief and complaint from the beginning to the end. David’s sins and his afflictions are the cause of his grief and the matter of his complaints. It seems that now he is sick and in pain, which reminded him of his sins and humbles him. At the same time, he
Psalm 38 – A Repentant Sufferer’s Plea for Healing Read More »
This Psalm teaches us to admonish one another to understand the providence of God. We need to learn to accommodate ourselves to it and at all times carefully do our duty and then patiently leave events with God. We can believe that, however black things may look for the present, it shall be “well with
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This Psalm is a sermon written not for our devotion, but for our conversation. There is nothing in it of prayer or praise, but it is all instruction. It is an exposition of the advancement of the wicked and the humiliation of the righteous. It offers a solution for the difficulties that arise and an
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