INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 144
"Wherever a believer goes he carries his protection along with him. Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield." "Man is... ...so frail is he, so weak, so helpless, compassed about with so many infirmities" "God's time to help his people is when they are sinking & all other helps fail." "...happy is that people, whose God is the Lord." "We were none of us made to be idle, & therefore we should pray for bodily health, not that we may be easy & take our pleasures, but that we may be strong to labour, that we may do the work of our place & day." "...happy are the people whose God is the Lord, according to the tenour of the covenant, though they have not abundance of the world's goods." CHAPTER 145 "If the heart be full of God, out of the abundance of that the mouth will speak, with reverence, to his praise, upon all occasions." "Praising God must be our daily work." "Those that make praise their constant work on earth shall have it their everlasting bliss in heaven." "We must declare, Great is the Lord, his presence infinite, his power irresistible, his brightness insupportable, his majesty awful, his dominion boundless, & his sovereignty incontestable" "...if great, then greatly to be praised, with all that is within us, to the utmost of our power, & with all the circumstances of solemnity imaginable." "God's goodness is great goodness, the treasures of it can never be exhausted" "We must be faithful to God, & sincere in our professions of dependence on him, & devotedness to him." "While I have breath to draw, my mouth shall still speak God's praises." CHAPTER 146 "Princes are mortal, as well as other men, & therefore we cannot have that assurance of help from them which we may have from that Potentate who hath immortality. Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils & will not be there long." "Happy is the man that hopes in the Lord his God, & who is not offended in him." "We may venture to take God's word, for he keepeth truth for ever, & therefore no word of his shall fall to the ground; it is true from the beginning, & therefore true to the end." "The way of the wicked he turns upside down, & therefore let us hope in him, & not be afraid of the fury of the oppressor, as though he were ready to destroy." "It is matter of unspeakable comfort that the Lord reigns as Zion's God, as Zion's king, that the Messiah is head over all things to the church, & will be so while the world stands." CHAPTER 147 "Praising God is work that is its own wages; it is heaven upon earth; it is what we should be in as in our element." "To those whom God heals with the consolations of his Spirit he speaks peace, assures them that their sins are pardoned & that he is reconciled to them, & so makes them easy, pours the balm of Gilead into the bleeding wounds, & then binds them up, & makes them to rejoice." "...God's knowledge is a depth that can never be fathomed." "A humble confidence in the goodness of God's nature is very pleasing to him" "Converting grace, like the thaw, softens the heart that was hard, moistens it, & melts it into tears of repentance; it warms good affections, & makes them to flow which, before, were chilled & stopped up." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 769 - 782.
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September 2023
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