That is the liberty which we all desire. Note how the heart has been spoken of up to this point: "whole heart" (2), "uprightness of heart" (7), "hid in mine heart" (11), "enlarge my heart." The resources of God are simply inexhaustible; the resources of the Christian life are the same.1.
Yet by that dissatisfaction we must not be so dejected as to sit down, or to stand still, but rather we must be excited to go on.
It may be, too, that further enlargements are required before the desired speed is obtained. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Now, let me remind you that the word “heart” has a much wealthier significance than we commonly attach to it to-day. If we say that a man has a big heart we do not refer to the range of his thought, but to the quality of his sympathies.
True spiritual life will widen the soul in its possessions, its perceptions, its will, and its love; it will extend our powers of having, of knowing, of willing, and of loving; and, in oneIf our heart has become faint and cold, we know what to do. It is suggestive of fences, and trespassing boards, of curbs and restraints. I. When thou shalt enlarge my heart.
In the text the Psalmist … to a deplorable degree, shut up in self; they have contracted hearts; still do they take narrow views of God's claim, and their own privileges, and the position in which they are set in the world and however much they might be said to stand, or sit, or walk in the way of God's commandments, they cannot be said to "run" in it. Oh, that my ways were directed To keep Your statutes! (2) Meditation on the character, and the work, and the being of God is very "enlarging" to the character of man. This in deed is called 2. There is no long range of purpose in our eyes, and therefore our feet are sluggish. Get your church set-up with online giving, sermon streaming, ... Psalm 119:32 I’ll run the course you lay out for me.
There is the capricious step, half feeling, half principle, which is continually halting.
That’s the way to get over the hill, and to get over it at a run! The strong action of the heart in all holy things comes from the blessed operation of the Spirit upon it; then only can we "run" the way of God's commandments, when he has enlarged our heart. Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart! Many of us go slowly because we do not see far. This running, as it is the fruit of effectual calling, so it is very needful; for cold and faint motions are soon overborne by difficulty and temptation: "Let us run with patience the race that is set before us" ( Some dispute and descant too much whether they go or no, and childishly tell their steps, and would know at every step whether they advance or no, and how much they advance, and thus amuse themselves, and spend the time of doing and going in questioning and doubting.
And then, as the Revised Version puts it, we require liberty—liberty from ignorance which prevents us from receiving the mind of God. Still in this, as in everything, while all is of God's grace, the grace itself lies within man's responsibility. These "I wills" of the Psalms are right worthy of being each one the subject of study and discourse. Robert Leighton.
We say that a man has not very much brain, but that he has a very big heart.
Let the affections be aroused and eagerly set on divine things, and our actions will be full of force, swiftness, and delight. Thus considered, they belong to a higher religious state than the one just described. There are few Christians who will not have the same feeling, and will not be conscious how small and low is their state of grace, how poor their service to their God, compared to what it should be, and what it might be with God to help them. According to the primitive physiology of those times the heart was the mysterious seat of thought as well as of feeling. You may get up the lower and earlier slopes, but when you get to Amos and Hoses and Isaiah the track becomes exceeding steep, until when you get to the Lord Himself the radiant ideal lifts itself sheer and clear as the Matterhorn. “I will run the way of Thy commandments when Thou shalt enlarge my motions.” TheThe true Broad Church is that in which an enlarged obedience to God’s commandments is brought about by an enlarged experience of His love; and His commandments and His love are both of them exceeding broad. There are two things especially remarkable in this Psalm: the variety of expressions used to describe the word of God and the corresponding variety of expressions used to describe the Son of man. Have you dealt with that? Now all these modern distinctions must be laid aside when we seek the interpretation of the Word of God. Deal with the past before you deal with the future.II. Read Psalm 119:32 commentary using The Treasury of David. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy BibleJoseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New TestamentsCommentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged When the Lord speaks of effectual calling, the issue of it is running; when he speaks of the conversion of the Gentiles, "Nations that know not thee shall run unto thee"; and, "Draw me, and we will run after thee."
When thou shalt bring me out of my present straits or distresses. There is the slow creeping of a mere abstract sense of stern duty. Psalms 119:32. Small and exclusive thinking is like a closed and tiny room, in which the inmates become asphyxiated, and reduced to lassitude and languor. Meditations on the Excellencies of the Word of God - א ALEPH Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord! He craved for more freedom of faith, for larger desires after God, for fuller trust in Him, and for warmer and stronger love towards Him. Weekly Sermon This sermon is a companion to a previous sermon: With Uprightness of Heart – Psalm 119:7 (Part 1) Psalm 119:7 reads, “I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.” In this verse we find three ingredients.
(4) Acts of open-handed charity have a strange effect to increase the heart.
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Summary- I come from the dust, and my soul is mired down in this fleshly, sorrowful way.Only His Word can revive me.
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