Man's Distinguishing Capacity and Fearful Liability
Homilist
Psalm 119:10
With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.


I. MAN'S DISTINGUISHING CAPACITY. What is that? Power to wander from the Divine law. He can bound from his orbit, he has done so, is doing so. Sublimely awful power this, the power that makes us men and links us to moral government.

II. MAN'S FEARFUL LIABILITY. The possession of this power is a dignity of our natures, the wrong use of this power is our crime and our ruin, and to the wrong use, alas, we are all fearfully liable. If I wander from God's commandment I wander from the right into the wrong, from light into darkness, from liberty to thraldom, from happiness to misery.

(Homilist.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

WEB: With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.




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