Psalms 30

Psalm 66:11-12: You laid affliction upon our loins, but you brought us out into a wealthy place. Psalm 30:5: Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. God brought Daniel out of the Lion's Den, Sihon out of Babylon.

O observe former failings, how you have sinned in your tongue, and that will be a good help for the future. David certainly made a critical observation upon some of his words, wherein he had offended: words of pride (Psalm 30:6): In my prosperity I said I shall never be moved. A…

First, in case of carnal confidence. Thus in Psalm 30, David had been in great distress of mind for a while, as appears from verses 3 and 5 — that though heaviness may be for the night, yet joy comes in the morning. In this sunshine David looks about him and sees not a cloud app…

Yes, it may be, calls all into question. Thus David in Psalm 30:6-7 — though his heart was but even now a little before full of joy and assurance of God's favor — yet God did but hide his face and all was gone: 'I was troubled,' says he. He was thus blind and could not see what…

And then also, as children left alone in the dark are afraid of bogeymen and they know not what, and are apt to stumble and fall — which is by reason of their weakness — so is it with the new creature in its childhood here in this life. 'It was my infirmity,' says David (Psalm 3…

Plead that you are never able to satisfy him, though he should throw you down to hell — he may cast you into prison, but you can never pay the debt. 'What profit therefore is there in my blood?' (Psalm 30:9). And therefore if satisfaction to his justice is his end, he might bett…

9. When all this is done in some measure, you would wait on in doing thus, and would continue in this way, looking to Him who is the Author and Finisher of faith, for His influence to make it go with you — to look to Him to be helped is the way to be helped to believe, or to pra…

Know, you are the sworn and over-engaged and drowned debtors of Jesus. Use 2. The sufferings of Mystical Christ are but for an hour; for a night, and joy in the morning (Psalm 30:5). A little season (Revelation 6:11).

His sickness was the more cumbersome and insupportable, because it surprised him unawares, while he was quiet and in prosperity, thinking nothing less than to be so soon bereaved of his life. We also know that the faithful now and then do please themselves too much in their pros…

Some supply, that perpetuity was founded in the ways of the Lord. But I had rather take the words simply as they sound, as David in Psalm 30 says, that the Lord's anger endures only for a night, but he is appeased, and shows mercy forever: for he is not provoked nor violently ca…

Section 23. There is no such provision of spiritual strength enabling anyone to comply with God's command for holiness as to countenance them in the least carnal security or neglect of the diligent use of all means appointed for the communication of that grace — as the Apostle P…

When sickness and pains summoned him to the grave, what bitter complaints and despondencies are recorded? in Isaiah 38. per tot. and when Providence lifted him up again into a prosperous condition, what ostentation and vain glory did he discover? Isaiah 39:2 David had more than…

Hence it is, that so many graves are opened for the burying of our Idols out of our sight. If David say, My mountain shall stand strong, I shall not be moved; the next news he shall hear, is of darkness and trouble, Psalm 30. 6, 7. O how true and faithful do we find these saying…

This also shows the great power and strength of corruption in the people of God, and must by some means or other be mortiied in them. This was the case of Hezekiah, his heart was too much affected with his treasures; so that he could not hide a vain-glorious temper, as you find…

Secondly, There is a fear which is opposed to security, and there is a fear which is opposed to comfort. It was David's sin, that he wanted the fear opposed to security, when he said, In my prosperity I shall never be moved: Lord, by your favor, you have made my mountain to stan…

2. This joy, and that nearness with Christ, which is the ground of it, are both often the effect of prayer, and follows upon it, when faith is in a lively way exercised in that duty. 3. That faith exercised on Christ, can make a sudden change to the better in a believer's case (…

He was not only soon pacified, but blessed her, and blessed God for her that pacified him. God does not contend forever, neither is he always wroth; his anger endures but a moment (Psalm 30:5). How unlike then are those to him whose sword devours forever, and whose anger burns l…

Hence Agur prays against riches because of the temptation that attends them: 'lest I be full and deny you, and say, who is the Lord?' (Proverbs 30:8–9). We know how David was mistaken in this case: 'I said in my prosperity I shall never be moved' (Psalm 30:6) — yet what lay at t…

If you could work miracles, though they were done by your hand, yet it were not by your power, but by the power of God. To the end that my glory may sing praise to you says David (Psalm 30). Whether his tongue, or his soul or both.

As the costly vesture of the high priest under the law, was not appointed to make himself gay for himself, but to adorn him for his holy service, and to commend, as a figure of it, the perfect holiness, with which our great high priest Jesus Christ was clothed. What good thing h…

Were our tongues given us to exchange folly and sin? Or were they not framed for the glorifying of God, and therefore are called our glory: some take it for the soul; but they must be one in this, and then indeed are both our tongues and souls truly our glory, when they are busi…

8. Good discourse is a Christians Honor. The Tongue is called our Glory, Psalm 30:12. Because it is the Instrument of Glorifying God.

I admit indeed that David was adorned with the gifts and graces of God, and had come to that perfection which can fall to a mortal, so much so that he can rightly be said to have excelled in angelic virtues. But nevertheless it was necessary and useful for him to be tested in th…

Though Christ is present with them now spiritually while they are here; yet the presence and nearness is but distance, but a kind of absence being compared with what is to come; and therefore this very presence does not quench their desires, but kindle them, and sets them longin…

Therefore if the Lord does but suspend the accustomed manifestations of his grace and favor, how are their hearts troubled! You hid your face, and I was troubled (Psalm 30:7). A child of God that lives by his favor cannot brook his absence; therefore when they lose the sweet sen…

It is as oil to the wheels, as wings by which we mount to meet with God. (Psalm 30:11) You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. It is an allusion to those Eastern countries, when their garments were girded and t…

All the world does them no good without the favor of God. As all the stars though they shine together do not dispel the darkness of the night: so, no creatures can comfort us sufficiently, when God hides his face from them, (Psalm 30:1). You hid your face and I was troubled.

They purge out sin (Isaiah 27:9): By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged out. We are apt to abuse prosperity to self-confidence (Psalm 30:6-7): In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. Lord, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong.

Now somewhat of this may be found in the people of God. In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved (Psalm 30:6-7). They drink in some of this poison, are apt to rest and sleep on a carnal pillow.

If God be gone but a little, or suspend his influence, we cannot stand our ground. 3. To subdue our carnal confidence (Psalm 30:6-7): In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. We fall asleep upon a carnal pillow, then God draws it away: You hid your face and I was trouble…

In Heaven where there is no sinning, there is no losing the light of God's countenance for a moment; and if saints here could serve God without corruption, they should enjoy God without desertion; but this cannot be, while we are in this state remaining lusts will stir and break…

The Lord bears not a fearless continuance in any distemper — if David [reconstructed: bides it] securely in base lusts, the Lord will break his bones for it. David therefore takes himself here — no sooner sees God withdrawing, but he seeks him with instancy and importunity (Psal…

When sin shall cease, tears shall cease. Psalm 30:5: Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. In the morning of the ascension, then shall all tears be wiped away.

If I die, it is good; if I live, it is good; if I be full, and rich, it is good; if I be hungry, and poor, it is good; if David be on the Throne, it is good, and he sings Psalms; if he be chased barefoot, and ashes on his head, by the ascent of Mount Olivet, it is good; he also…

Death is the cure of care; we are thoughtful and solicitous how to get such an estate, how to provide for such a child; now death comes to a believer as a friend, and says, Never perplex and distract your mind thus, I will free you from all these heart-killing cares; I will stri…

We fancy it a brave life to live at ease. And if we meet with long respites and intervals of trial beyond the usual, we are apt to say, 'We shall never be moved,' as David did (Psalm 30:6), or 'We shall die in our nest' (Job 29:18) — our hard and difficult days are over. But woe…

5. Christ's frownnings and sad desertions, though to the believer they be death and hell, yet have much of heaven in them. So (Psalm 30:7): You turned away your face, and I was troubled — [in non-Latin alphabet] Niuhal — I was troubled like a withered flower that loses sap and v…

A rough dispensation of Christ cannot long remain rough to the saints; he must answer and ease the pain of the woman's broken spirit. It is a night's pain to Christ to cause the tears to run down the cheeks of his Church all the night; he cannot but bring a daylight of joy befor…

Though he had many precious graces bestowed on him yet not he, nor any grace in him, but the grace of God with him, that worked with him, and acted, and did all he did wherever he came; Now blessed be God that makes manifest the savor of his grace (2 Corinthians 2:12-15). 3. And…

And further, Baptism is the seal of the covenant, we are baptized into the name of the Trinity, into the house of God; now if the name of the Trinity be put upon us, then we must do service to the Trinity, and the Trinity yields us, protection, and provision; a man then discoven…