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Verse 3. "Thou hast proved mine heart." The metal, the furnace, the refiner, etc. Verse 3. "Thou hast visited me in the night."  I. Glorious visitor.
II. Favoured individual.
III. Peculiar season.
IV. Refreshing remembrance.
V. Practical result.
Verse 3 (last sentence). Transgressions of the lip, and how to avoid them. Verse 4. The highway and the by-paths. The world and sin. "The paths of the destroyer"—a significant name for transgression. Verse 5. "Hold up." I. Who? God.
II. What? "My goings."
III. When? Present tense.
IV. Where? "In thy paths."
V. Why? "That my footsteps slip not."
Verse 5. Let me observe David and learn to pray as he prayed, "Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not." I. See his course. He speaks of his "goings." Religion does not allow a man to sit still. He speaks of his goings "in God's paths." These are threefold.
(1). The path of his commands.
(2). The path of his ordinances.
(3). The path of his dispensations.
II. His concern respecting this course. It is the language of—
(1). Conviction;
(2). of apprehension;
(3). of weakness;
(4). of confidence.
—William Jay. Verse 6. Two words, both great, though little, "call" and "hear." Two persons, one little and the other great, "I," "Thee, O God." Two tenses: past, "I have;" future, "Thou wilt." Two wonders, that we do not call more, and that God hears such unworthy prayers. Verse 7. (first sentence). See Exposition. A view of divine lovingkindness desired. Verse 7. "O thou," etc. God, the Saviour of believers. Verse 8. Two most suggestive emblems of tenderness and care. Involving in the one case living unity, as the eye with the body, and in the other, loving relationship, as the bird and its young. Verse 14. "Men of the world, which have their portion in this life." Who they are? What they have? Where they have it? What next? Verse 14. "Men which are thy hand." Providential control and use of wicked men. Verse 15. This is the language (1). of a man whose mind is made up; who has decided for himself; who does not suspend his conduct upon the resolution of others.
(2). Of a man rising in life, and with great prospects before him.
(3). It is the language of a Jew.
Verse 15. The beholding of God's face signifies two things. I. The enjoyment of his favour.
II. Intimate communions with him.—William Jay.
Verse 15. See "Spurgeon's Sermons," No. 25. Title, "The Hope of Future Bliss." Divisions. I. The Spirit of this utterance.
II. The matter of it.
III. The contrast implied in it.
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