The Advantages of a Fixed Heart
Psalm 57:7-8
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.…


A garden that is watered by sudden showers is more uncertain in its fruits than when it is refreshed by a constant stream; so when our thoughts are sometimes upon good things and then run off, when they do but take a glance, as it were, upon holy objects, and then run away, there is not such fruit brought into the soul as when our minds by meditation do dwell upon them. The rays of the sun may warm us, but they do not inflame unless they are contracted in a burning-glass; so some slight thoughts of heavenly things may warm us a little, but will never inflame the soul till they be fixed by close meditation. Therefore David tells us his "heart was fixed," and saith the same concerning the frame of a good man.

(H. G. Salter.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

WEB: My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.




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