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Psalm 39
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David meditates on man's frailty. (1-6) He applies for pardon and
deliverance. (7-13)
Verses 1-6 If an
evil thought should arise in the mind, suppress it. Watchfulness in the habit,
is the bridle upon the head; watchfulness in acts, is the hand upon the bridle.
When not able to separate from wicked men, we should remember they will watch
our words, and turn them, if they can, to our disadvantage. Sometimes it may be
necessary to keep silence, even from good words; but in general we are wrong
when backward to engage in edifying discourse. Impatience is a sin that has its
cause within ourselves, and that is, musing; and its ill effects upon ourselves,
and that is no less than burning. In our greatest health and prosperity, every
man is altogether vanity, he cannot live long; he may die soon. This is an
undoubted truth, but we are very unwilling to believe it. Therefore let us pray
that God would enlighten our minds by his Holy Spirit, and fill our hearts with
his grace, that we may be ready for death every day and hour.
Verses 7-13 There
is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature; but it is to be found in the
Lord, and in communion with him; to him we should be driven by our
disappointments. If the world be nothing but vanity, may God deliver us from
having or seeking our portion in it. When creature-confidences fail, it is our
comfort that we have a God to go to, a God to trust in. We may see a good God
doing all, and ordering all events concerning us; and a good man, for that
reason, says nothing against it. He desires the pardoning of his sin, and the
preventing of his shame. We must both watch and pray against sin. When under the
correcting hand of the Lord, we must look to God himself for relief, not to any
other. Our ways and our doings bring us into trouble, and we are beaten with a
rod of our own making. What a poor thing is beauty! and what fools are those
that are proud of it, when it will certainly, and may quickly, be consumed! The
body of man is as a garment to the soul. In this garment sin has lodged a moth,
which wears away, first the beauty, then the strength, and finally the substance
of its parts. Whoever has watched the progress of a lingering distemper, or the
work of time alone, in the human frame, will feel at once the force of this
comparison, and that, surely every man is vanity. Afflictions are sent to stir
up prayer. If they have that effect, we may hope that God will hear our prayer.
The believer expects weariness and ill treatment on his way to heaven; but he
shall not stay here long : walking with God by faith, he goes forward on his
journey, not diverted from his course, nor cast down by the difficulties he
meets. How blessed it is to sit loose from things here below, that while going
home to our Father's house, we may use the world as not abusing it! May we
always look for that city, whose Builder and Maker is God.
Psalm 39:
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