Psalms 107

We may see God's glory blazing in the sun, twinkling in the stars. Look into the sea, and see the wonders of God in the deep (Psalms 107:24). Look into the air, there the birds make melody, and sing forth the praises of their Creator.

The disciples wondered that Christ could with a word calm the sea (Matthew 8:26), but it was far more with a word to make the sea. Let us on a Sabbath meditate on the infiniteness of our Creator, look up to the firmament, there we may see God's glory blazing in the sun, twinklin…

1. To all places (Jeremiah 23): Am I a God at hand, and not a God afar off? The diocese where Providence visits is very large, it reaches to heaven, to earth and sea (Psalm 107:23-24): They that go down to sea see the wonders of God in the deep. Now that the sea, which is higher…

O bring me out of my distresses. God can with a word heal (Psalm 107:20). He sent forth his word and healed them.

First, we may say thus: That the land of Edom was a fertile land; but yet in respect of the Land of Canaan, but a barren and waste Land. Secondly, Isaac speaks here of Idumea, as it was in his time; not as it was afterward: for, it might be fertile in Isaac's time, and yet after…

So good King Jehoshaphat, when he was compassed of his enemies, He cried to the Lord, and said; Lord we know not what to do, but our eyes are towards Thee: 2 Chronicles 20:12. Yea, the rebellious Jews are hereby driven to seek the Lord, whom in prosperity they forsook: as we may…

A second evidence is, when people in their approaches to God, have faith and fear going together; anxiety and fear without faith are not good, and self-confidence without fear is as ill; but when faith and fear go together, it is good; fear arising from the impression of our own…

(Acts 9) Christ from heaven proposes a syllogism to Saul's fury, It's hard for you to kick against pricks. God has logic against anger, which has neither ears nor reason; for if he could not out-argue Laban's hatred, and the haters of the saints, to whom he says, Touch not my an…

As the word of creation made all things, so the word of providence sustains all things. This word is spoken of (Psalm 107:20): "He sent his word, and his word healed them, and delivered them from all their destructions." It is dictum factum with God, if he speak but the word it…

To instruct us by facts, that whatever is lofty and elevated in the world is subject to God, and that the whole world is governed by his dominion, some are exalted to high honor, while others either come down in a gradual manner, or else fall headlong from their thrones. Such is…

O how ravishing and delectable a sight is that! to behold at one view the whole design of Providence, and the proper place, and use of every single act, which we could not understand in this world: for what Christ said to Peter, John 13:7 is as applicable to some providences in…

Now let us in the next place view another gracious performance of Providence for us, in making provision from time to time for us and our Families. I the rather put these Providences together in this place, because I find the Scripture does so, Psalm 107:41 He setteth the poor o…

Praise and thanksgiving for mercies depend upon this act of observation of them, and cannot be performed without it. Psalm 107. is spont in narratives of Gods Providential care of men. To his people in straits, Ver. 4, 5, 6. To prisoners in their bonds, Ver. 10, 11, 12.

We use to say of a man in a distressed condition, He is in a wood or in a wilderness. And when God entangles men in their own devices, it is said, He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way (Psalm 107:40). So Pharaoh said o…

The third sort of precious useful goods, that the Christian is to lay up, is those various experiences, he has in all passages of his life; certainly a Christian may be a great gainer this way, this is a grand duty, a character of solid wisdom, and a means of more. So says the P…

There is a time coming, when we shall wish we had drawn near to God. We are shortly drawing near to our grave (Psalm 107:18): They draw near to the gates of death. The wicked who care not for God, yet at death they would draw near to him.

They were almost all of them such as had been spoken of as the peculiar works of God, in the Old Testament. So with respect to stilling the sea, Psalm 107:29. "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still."

Now meekness is a grace of the Spirit, that moves upon the face of the waters and quiets them, smooths the ruffled sea, and stills the noise of it (it is now mare pacificum) — it casts forth none of the mire and dirt of passion. The waves mount not up to the heaven in proud and…

They that are afflicted, do better understand Scripture, says Luther, but those who are secure in their prosperity, read them as a verse in Ovid. Amongst many others, this is one special means whereby an afflicted condition comes to be useful for the increase of grace, because i…

And so in their returns, notwithstanding the terrible and astonishing Works of the Lord, which they have beheld with their eyes, and their marvellous preservation iu so great and terrible extremities; yet thus do they requite the Lord, assoon as their dangers are over, as if the…

What Joy is there among Sea-men, when at last, after a tedious and dangerous Voyage, they descry Land, and see the desied Haven before them? Then they turn out of their loath'd Cabbins, and come upon open Deck with much joy, Psalm 107:30. Then they are glad, because they be quie…

OBSERVATION WE have an elegant and lively description of their fears and dangers, Psalm 107:25, 26, 27. He commands and raiseth the stormy Winds, which listeth up the Waves thereof: They mount up to Heaven, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of troubl…

Were there ever affairs and times that more discovered the folly and weakness of men, and the wisdom and power of God? Oh! were our hearts set to magnify him — that word often repeated in that Psalm (Psalm 107): Oh! that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and his wonderf…

For we know that they cried out as if put to the question. That cry then was not unlike the one of which the prophet speaks in Psalm 107, when wretched men in extreme distresses cry out to God, not indeed from love of God's worship, but driven by the magnitude of their pains. Bu…

3. Such as go flatly against the counsel of God, and to gratify their own interest pervert all that is just and honest. "They rebelled against the word of the Lord, and condemned the counsel of the Most High" (Psalm 107:11). These do but expose themselves to speedy ruin.

Or (2.) it relates to his languishing under the extremity of his sorrow; as an unctuous thing wastes by dropping, so was his soul even dropping away. Such a like expression is used in Psalm 107:26: Their soul is melted because of trouble; and of Jesus Christ, whose strength was…

And (Joel 2:17): "On the fasting day let the priests the ministers of the Lord weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, spare your people, O Lord, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, why should they say among the people…

2. It must be the fruit of constant observation of the effects of his goodness vouchsafed to us, so that we may give our thanks and praise for all that good we do enjoy. Careless spirits are not sensible of the hand of providence, never take notice of good or evil; therefore the…

Let us search and try our ways, and turn to the Lord. 3. You must observe Providence, and your hearts must be awake and attend to it (Psalm 107:43): "Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord." (Ecclesiastes 7:14)…

Many when God visits them, then they visit him, but not till then; when God pours out his afflictions, then they pour out their supplications. This is Seamen's devotion, when the storms have brought them to their wits' end, then they cry to the Lord in their trouble (Psalm 107:2…

Yet this (the Lord knows) is the too common effect of the most plain and powerful preaching of the Gospel: the waters of the sanctuary do not always heal where they come, for there are miry and marshy places that shall be given to salt (Ezekiel 47:11). The same word is elsewhere…

Therefore when the Lord intends to make thorough work with a poor wretch whom he has upon the rack, in his horror and perplexities there he holds him; he shall not go or get from there before he go further and forces the sinner to further consideration; If it be so why am I thus…

Luke 1:53: He has filled the hungry with good things. Psalm 107:9: He satisfies the longing soul. God will not let us lose our longing.

There are four things in Christ that are healing. His word is healing (Psalm 107:20): he sent his word and healed them. His word in the mouth of his ministers is healing; when the spirit is wounded in desertion, Christ creates lips that speak peace (Isaiah 57:19).

And this is it that moved the prophet in all his octaves and in many other places, with so many deep sighs and groanings to cry out, and to call upon the word of God. Again, neither is there any more horrible a plague of God's wrath, than while he sends famine of hearing his wor…

Christian: But what have you met with? said Christian. The Two Men: Why, we were almost in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, but that by good hap we looked before us, and saw the danger before we came to it (Psalm 44:19; Psalm 107:19). Christian: But what have you seen? said Ch…

I have a multitude of enemies, and but a few friends. But in the midst of my lamentation the thoughts of those glorious promises of God concerning what he has said of me in the latter days, does revive my heart; for though I have few to plead my cause, or to clear my innocency,…

1. Rule, Go not before God and Providence, but follow him, prescription of such and such means to God and no other, is to limit omnipotency, and to limit the holy one of Israel: The true God tied to a forbidden image, to receive glory, is made an idol; so to fetter God to this m…

As the philosopher's stone turns all metals into gold; as the bee sucks honey out of every flower, and a good stomach sucks out some sweet and wholesome nourishment out of what it takes to itself: so does a holy heart, so far as sanctified, convert and digest all into spiritual,…

And though the Sanctuary and our Churches do differ, yet when the people are there assembled, then God is greatly to be reverenced (Psalm 89:7). Come therefore reverently, and seek for knowledge, as for hidden treasure, seek it in the fellowship of God's servants (Proverbs 13:20…