Psalm 17:
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Psalm 17
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David's integrity. (1-7) The character of his enemies. His hope of
happiness. (8-15)
Verses 1-7 This
psalm is a prayer. Feigned prayers are fruitless; but if our hearts lead our
prayers, God will meet them with his favour. The psalmist had been used to pray,
so that it was not his distress and danger that now first brought him to his
duty. And he was encouraged by his faith to expect God would notice his prayers.
Constant resolution and watchfulness against sins of the tongue, will be a good
evidence of our integrity. Aware of man's propensity to wicked works, and of his
own peculiar temptations, David had made God's word his preservative from the
paths of Satan, which lead to destruction. If we carefully avoid the paths of
sin, it will be very lead to destruction. If we carefully avoid the paths of
sin, it will be very comfortable in the reflection, when we are in trouble.
Those that are, through grace, going in God's paths, should pray that their
goings may be held up in those paths. David prays, Lord, still hold me up. Those
who would proceed and persevere in the ways of God, must, by faith prayer, get
daily fresh supplies of grace and strength from him. Show thy marvellous
loving-kindness, distinguishing favours, not common mercies, but be gracious to
me; do as thou usest to do to those who love thy name.
Verses 8-15 Being
compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is
a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and
difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted state,
and is a pattern to Christians to commit the keeping of their souls to God,
trusting him to preserve them to his heavenly kingdom. Those are our worst
enemies, that are enemies to our souls. They are God's sword, which cannot move
without him, and which he will sheathe when he has done his work with it. They
are his hand, by which he chastises his people. There is no fleeing from God's
hand, but by fleeing to it. It is very comfortable, when we are in fear of the
power of man, to see it dependent upon, and in subjection to the power of God.
Most men look on the things of this world as the best things; and they look no
further, nor show any care to provide for another life. The things of this world
are called treasures, they are so accounted; but to the soul, and when compared
with eternal blessings, they are trash. The most afflicted Christian need not
envy the most prosperous men of the world, who have their portion in this life.
Clothed with Christ's righteousness, having through his grace a good heart and a
good life, may we by faith behold God's face, and set him always before us. When
we awake every morning, may we be satisfied with his likeness set before us in
his word, and with his likeness stamped upon us by his renewing grace. Happiness
in the other world is prepared only for those that are justified and sanctified:
they shall be put in possession of it when the soul awakes, at death, out of its
slumber in the body, and when the body awakes, at the resurrection, out of its
slumber in the grave. There is no satisfaction for a soul but in God, and in his
good will towards us, and his good work in us; yet that satisfaction will not be
perfect till we come to heaven.
Psalm 17:
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