Psalms 92

This is the yearly rent we pay to the crown of heaven. 1. Appreciation: To glorify God is to set God highest in our thoughts, to have a venerable esteem of him (Psalm 92:8): You, Lord, are most high forevermore. (Psalm 97:9): You are exalted far above all gods.

His affections were sublimated; he did take a turn in heaven every day. The righteous are compared to a palm tree (Psalm 92:12). Philo observes that whereas all other trees have their sap in their root, the sap of the palm tree is towards the top.

Many men have zeal indeed, but it comes only from the strength and soundness of their bodily constitution: and look, as strength decays, so does that kind of zeal. But sound zeal will not decay and weaken with the body; but (as David says of the righteous, Psalm 92:13, 15) will…

Let us consider that it is the property of a liberal mind, to devise liberal things, and to continue his liberality (Isaiah 32:8). Neither is this all, not to be weary, or to persist and continue, but we must proceed on from strength to strength, and bring forth more fruit in ou…

I reply, if any man estimate aright the immediate grace of God, by which he relieves the sorrows of his people, he will acknowledge that it is justly preferred to all the riches of the world. For though unbelievers flourish, (Psalm 92:7,) yet as they know not what awaits them on…

And first, Labour to work into your hearts a deep and fixed sense of the infinite wisdom of God, and your own folly and ignorance. This will make resignation easie to you: whatsoever the Lord does is by counsel, Ephesians 1:11 his understanding is infinite, Psalm 147:5 his thoug…

To give, maintain and preserve our life, are choice acts of Providences: but to do all this in a way of grace and loving-kindness, this is far better than the gifts themselves: life is but the shadow of death without it: this is the mercy that crowns all other mercies, Psalm 103…

By bed, is understood the special means of nearest fellowship with, and enjoying of Christ; the bed being the place of rest, and of the nearest fellowship between the Bridegroom and the Bride. Its commendation is, that it is green: that is, 1. Refreshing, like the spring. 2. Fru…

2. A palm tree has good fruits; the dates are the fruit thereof. 3. It is a tree of long continuance, and keeps long green; hence (Psalm 92:12, 14) it is said of the righteous, they shall flourish like the palm tree; therefore (Joel 1:12) it is an evidence of great drought, when…

How can a rose keep fresh without a root? But they that are planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of our God; indeed, they shall bring forth fruit in old age (Psalm 92:13-14). For a lively principle is the seed of God that will never die, and this spring…

It least of all becomes a Christian to be of a hasty and impatient spirit. Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart (Psalm 92:11). Behold the Husbandman waits, etc. (James 5:7).

God's vineyard is planted in a very fruitful hill (Isaiah 5:1). And surely they that are planted in the house of the Lord, should flourish in the court of our God; they should bring forth fruit, even in old age, to show that God is upright (Psalm 92:13-14). They are created in C…

Those whose natural temper, or their age, or distemper leads them to be hot, and hasty, and unquiet, have an opportunity by their meekness and gentleness to discover both the truth and strength of grace in general; for it is the surest mark of uprightness to keep ourselves from…

Luther seemed to hear God say to him, when he was importunate to know his mind in some particular Providence, Deus sum non sequax: I am a God not to be traced. Some Providences, like Hebrew Letters, must be read backward, Psalm 92:7. Some Providences pose Men of the greatest par…

Honest] Fair, or beautiful — the same word does fitly signify goodness and beauty. For that, that is the truest and most lasting beauty grows fresher in old age as the Psalmist speaks of the righteous in Psalm 92, as trees planted in the house of God. Could the beauty of virtue…

That still he may feed on the goodness of God (Psalm 71:9): Cast me not off in old age, forsake me not when my strength fails. It is the continual influence of his graciousness makes them still grow like cedars in Lebanon (Psalm 92), to bring forth fruit in old age to be still f…

And their white hairs speak nothing but ripeness for wrath. Oh! to be as a tree [reconstructed: planted] in the House of the Lord bringing forth fruit in old age (Psalm 92:12-13); much experience in the ways of God, and much disdain of the world, and much desire of the love of G…

The longest life is too short to honor God. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of our God (Psalm 92:13). We should count it our happiness to be still used, and that we are fully rewarded by being employed in further service.

Psalm 102:27-28: "You are the same, and your years shall have no end. The children of your servants shall continue." So when the flourishing of the wicked is spoken of, when they spring as grass (Psalm 92:8): "But you, O Lord, are most high for evermore." If they be high, God is…

If a man were to be hanged, would one envy to see him walk to the gallows through pleasant fields and fine galleries, or to see him go up the ladder in cloth of gold? The wicked may flourish in their bravery a while, but when they flourish as the grass, it is that they shall be…

Never I believe since the Apostles' times was there a more learned, orthodox, powerful ministry than now; God's ministers are called stars (Revelation 1:20). In this city every morning a star appears, besides the bright constellation on the Lord's day; Oh you that feed in the gr…

Dead things do not grow; a picture will not grow; a hypocrite, who is but a picture of religion, does not grow. A good Christian grows in love to Christ, in humility, in good works (Psalm 92:12; Hosea 14:5): he shall grow as the lily, his branches shall spread. When the Spirit o…

(5.) Infants are debarred from Covenant-calling and gathering in under the wings of Christ: contrary to Matthew 28:19-20, Matthew 23:37, Psalm 147:19-20, and excluded from God's Covenant-choice: contrary to Deuteronomy 7:6-9, 13-14, Deuteronomy 10:15, and left being heirs of wra…

There is most certainly a ripening of their graces that way — a changing or gradual transformation from glory to glory, a springing up to that full stature of the man in Christ. 'They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God' (Psalm 92:13…

A great revival of religion is expressly compared to this gradual production of vegetables (Isaiah 61:11): "As the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring f…