We start each day with our personal security resting not on the accepting love of God and the sacrifice of Christ but on our present feelings or recent achievements in the Christian life. Since these arguments will not quiet the human conscience, we are inevitably moved either to discouragement and apathy or to a self-righteousness which falsifies the record to achieve a sense of peace. But the faith that is able to warm itself at the fire of God’s love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of peace.
Richard Lovelace

Spurgeon PS127

Spurgeon PS127 EXPOSITION. To fall into the hands of an evil generation, so as to be baited by their cruelty, or polluted by their influence, is an evil to be…

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Spurgeon PS126

Spurgeon PS126 EXPOSITION. What a contrast between the vain words of man, and the pure words of Jehovah. Man's words are yea and nay, but the Lord's promises are yea…

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Spurgeon PS125

Spurgeon PS125 EXPOSITION. In due season the Lord will hear his elect ones, who cry day and night unto him, and though he bear long with their oppressors, yet will…

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Spurgeon PS123

Spurgeon PS123 EXPOSITION. Total destruction shall overwhelm the lovers of flattery and pride, but meanwhile how they hector and fume! Well did the apostle call them "raging waves of the…

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Spurgeon PS121

Spurgeon PS121 TITLE. This Psalm is headed, "_To the Chief Musician upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David_," which title is identical with that of the sixth Psalm, except that Neginoth…

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Spurgeon PS114

Spurgeon PS114 EXPOSITION. David here declares the great source of his unflinching courage. He borrows his light from heaven--from the great central orb of deity. The God of the believer…

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Spurgeon PS111

Spurgeon PS111 SUBJECT.--Charles Simeon gives an excellent summary of this Psalm in the following sentences:--"The Psalms are a rich repository of experimental knowledge. David, at the different periods of his…

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Spurgeon PS1016

Spurgeon PS1016 EXPOSITION. The Psalm ends with a song of thanksgiving to the great and everlasting King, because he has granted the desire of his humble and oppressed people, has…

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Spurgeon PS1015

Spurgeon PS1015 EXPOSITION. In this verse we hear again the burden of the Psalmist's prayer: "_Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man_." Let the sinner lose…

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Spurgeon PS1013

Spurgeon PS1013 EXPOSITION. In these verses (#13,14,15|) the description of the wicked is condensed, and the evil of his character traced to its source, viz., atheistical ideas with regard to…

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