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When we see sin, we are close to the light. Only when we don’t see sin should we be suspicious of our hearts [1 Jn. 1:8].
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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).
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    Spurgeon PS1818

    EXPOSITION.

    It was an ill day, a day of _calamity_, of which evil foes took cruel advantage while they used crafty means utterly to ruin him, yet David could say, “_but the Lord is my stay_.” What a blessed _but_ which cuts the Gordian knot, and slays the hundred-headed hydra! There is no fear of deliverance when our stay is in Jehovah.

    EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.

    Verse 18.–“_They prevented me in the day of my calamity_;” i.e., came on me suddenly unawares, when I was unprovided and helpless, and must have destroyed me had not God upheld and supported me when I was in danger of perishing. God was to the Psalmist _mish

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