Monthly archives: October, 2022

When Persecution Threatens

October 16, 2022 testadmin

Do not snatch the word of truth from my mouth,

for I have put my hope in your laws.

Psalm 119:43

It is well known that men do, when persecution
threatens, either altogether deny the truth, or
weakly and lukewarmly confess it; but lest this
should happen to him,

David therefore prays here,
” O Lord, take not the word of truth utterly out
of my mouth,” i.e., make me, with an intrepid
spirit, always to confess the avowed truth boldly
and manfully.

Solomon Gesner (1559-1665)

 from studylight.org commentaries

Life of the Soul

October 8, 2022 testadmin

My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise renews my life.

Psalm 119: 50

“Thy word hath quickened me.”

It is a reviving comfort which quickeneth the soul.
Many times we seem to be dead to all spiritual operations,
our affections are damped and discouraged; but the word of
God puts life into the dead, and relieveth us in our greatest distresses.

Sorrow worketh death, but joy is the life of the
soul. Now, when dead in all sense and feeling, ” the just shall
live by faith” (Hab.ii:4), and the hope wrought in us by the
Scriptures is “a lively hope” (1Peter.i:3). Other things skin
the wound, but our sore breaketh out again, and runneth;

faith penetrateth into the inwards of a man,
doth good for the heart; and the soul reviveth
by waiting upon God, and gets life and strength.

-Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

The Treasury of David Classic Reflections of the Wisdom of the Psalms

by Charles H. Spurgeon p.245