Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty. Sermons
I. THE TRUE NATURE OF PRAYER. It is the desire of the heart (ver. 2). This is frequently taught by doctrine and fact in Holy Scripture. Words are of the mouth, thoughts are of the heart. "Words without thoughts never to heaven go." It is asking of God for things agreeable to his will. While there is real "asking," there is also loving trust and acquiescence. God''s will is aye the best will. II. SOME LIGHT AS TO THE MANNER IN WHICH GoD ANSWERS PRAYER. 1. By giving what is good. "Life." 2. In a higher sense than we thought of. "For ever." 3. In such a way as shall be for the greatest benefit to others as well as to ourselves. "Blessings" (cf. Paul, "more needful for you," Philippians 1:24). Hence faith is confirmed. Our hopes as to the future are sustained. Our hearts are soothed amidst the disappointments and trials of life, by the assurance that all is well. We ask "life" for ourselves; and God gives what he sees best. We ask "life" for our friends. Some child or loved one is in peril of death. We plead for him. We entreat that he may be spared. We continue with "strong crying and tears" to pray that his life, so precious and so dear, may be prolonged. But in vain. He dies. We are troubled. We mourn in bitterness of soul, as if God had forgotten to be gracious. But when we look at things aright, we find comfort. God has answered us in his own way. He knows what is best. Your little one has gone quickly to heaven. Your darling boy has been taken to a nobler field of service than earth. The "desire of your eyes" has been caught up into the glory of God. There they await us. Love never faileth. The fellowship in Christ endures for ever. - W.F.
His glory is great in Thy salvation. In this Psalm the poet is giving thanks for victory. The soldiers are returning from war, and are met by a chorus of maidens shouting praise to the delivering God. The poetry is not equal to the moral enthusiasm of the occasion. We are called upon to contemplate God's glory as being great in human salvation. We thus enjoy the basis and the application of the thought. It would seem to be beneath Almighty God to care for a world so small and foolish as ours. It is not for us to estimate even our own worth. It does not become us to say that the world is insignificant, mean, or worthless; it is the work of God. What God has thought it worth His while to make, He may well think it worth His while to redeem. We do not see the whole world, nor do we comprehend all the issues of its discipline and nurture. When Jesus sees the travail of His soul He shall be satisfied. To save one soul is glory enough for any mortal man. What must it be to save the souls of all men, the souls of the ages and centuries incomputable? It is the delight of God to save, to redeem, to construct; the function of the enemy is to overthrow, to weaken, to debase, and to bring all life into dishonour. The course which the enemy has taken is the easier, since it is always easier to destroy than to construct. We glorify God by our goodness. God does not exist to be glorified in any sense of being merely hailed and saluted by songs and rapturous applause. When we are most quiet we are most really glorifying God. By meekness, by pureness, by gentleness, by quiet spiritual wisdom, by accepting the lot of life in a spirit of self-sacrifice, we may be bringing true glory to God. Do not think of the glory of God in any merely magnificent sense. We must change our definition of magnificence. In the sight of heaven it may be magnificent to be poor in spirit, gentle, and meek; and it may be mean and contemptible to own estates and crowns and sceptres. It is upon moral emotion, aspiration, and service that God sets His seal of blessing.(Joseph Parker, D. D.) People David, PsalmistPlaces JerusalemTopics Authority, Bestow, Bestowed, Glory, Hast, Honor, Honour, Laid, Lay, Majesty, Placest, Salvation, Splendor, SplendourOutline 1. A thanksgiving for victory7. with confidence of further success Dictionary of Bible Themes Psalm 21:5Library Epistle Lviii. To all the Bishops Throughout Helladia . To all the Bishops throughout Helladia [1626] . Gregory to all bishops constituted in the province of Helladia. I return thanks with you, dearest brethren, to Almighty God, who has caused the hidden sore which the ancient enemy had introduced to come to the knowledge of all, and has cut it away by a wholesome incision from the body of His Church. Herein we have cause both to rejoice and to mourn; to rejoice, that is, for the correction of a crime, but to mourn for the fall of a brother. But, since … Saint Gregory the Great—the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great My Brethren. The Poor in Spirit are Enriched with a Kingdom Fourteenth Day for the Church of the Future Of Deeper Matters, and God's Hidden Judgments which are not to be Inquired Into The Evening of the Third Day in Passion-Week - on the Mount of Olives: Discoures to the Disciples Concerning the Last Things. Sermons of St. Bernard on the Passing of Malachy What Messiah did the Jews Expect? Letter Li to the virgin Sophia Psalms Links Psalm 21:5 NIVPsalm 21:5 NLT Psalm 21:5 ESV Psalm 21:5 NASB Psalm 21:5 KJV Psalm 21:5 Bible Apps Psalm 21:5 Parallel Psalm 21:5 Biblia Paralela Psalm 21:5 Chinese Bible Psalm 21:5 French Bible Psalm 21:5 German Bible Psalm 21:5 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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