Doubt and hardness of heart depart. Psalm 63:1(NASB) Verse Thoughts. A weary place and a weary heart make the presence of God the more desirable: if there be nothing below and nothing within to cheer, it is a thousand mercies that we may look up and find all we need. This psalm invites us into that same longing for our God. If you have Jesus, you have everything; if you have not him, you have nothing. Properly; I thirst not so much for water (which yet I greatly want) as for thee. Unless they in some degree express our experiences and emotions, there is little likelihood that our lives will be blessed or noble, and we have little right to call ourselves Christians. This time it’s loudly and pointedly.1, Chapter 55 serves as the conclusion to the section of Isaiah frequently dubbed “Deutero-Isaiah” (chapters 40-55).1, “No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. Thirsteth for thee, i.e. But we see even more when we reflect that He has created us for Himself. have כארץ keerets, As a dry and thirsty land, etc. My soul thirsteth for thee. Verse 1. The true Christian devotes to God the morning hour. The knowledge and love of our Maker is not, like the indulgence of a sentiment or a taste, a matter of choice. He has taken in this particular instance the most unlikely man of all the men that he has drawn, and he has shown us that there is something in that man. There has to be a continual meditation, if I may so say, upon the all-sufficiency of that divine Lord and Lover of our souls, and there has to be a vigilant and a continual suppression, and often excision and ejection, of other desires after transient and partial satisfactions. 1. Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661). It is a thing which is not so easily said as the world imagines it and thinks it to be. God!’ Now I, to comfort the gentleman, told him I hoped there was no need to think of God just then; and so he died.”, Probably many of you recognise these words. They are put into the mouth of a bad woman by Shakespeare—a bad woman who saw a bad man die. Most commentators believe it to belong either to David’s wilderness years before he came to the throne of Israel, or to his brief exile from the throne in the rebellion of Absalom. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee - who alone canst satisfy the thirst of an immortal "soul." The certainty that the soul thirsting after God shall be satisfied with God results at once from His nearness to us, and His infinite willingness to give Himself, which He is only prevented from carrying into act by our obstinate refusal to open our hearts by desire. "Commentary on Psalms 63:1". 1840-57. Now, all that is but a picturesque way of putting a very plain truth, which we should all be the happier and better if we believed and lived by, that we can have as much of God as we desire, and that what we have of Him will be enough. Verse 1. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary by J.C.Philpot on select texts of the Bible, "O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. G. J. K. What first lays hold of the heart in the morning is likely to occupy the place all the day. When he was in the wilderness of Judah. David here speaks of seeking God for what he is in himself as distinct from what he has to give. Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. My flesh longeth for thee] Non habet haec vex secium, saith Aben-Ezra; this word is here only found. Verse 1. A man who lets all his longings go unchecked and untamed after earthly good has none left towards heaven. "Some have interpreted this to mean that David was here granted a vision of God just as clear and distinct as he had seen in the sanctuary. But such fountains are very rare in the desert. To say God is ours, is to say the whole world is ours, and a great deal more; it is to give us title to everything which may be requisite or convenient for us.
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