Remembering God
Homilist
Psalm 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.


This was a very sad condition. Asaph must have felt that it was unnatural to entertain such gloomy thoughts of God.

I. A TEST OF OUR CONDITION. Do we remember Him and become troubled? Then our state is wrong. If troubled now at the remembrance of His holiness, how much greater will the trouble be when we meet Him face to face in all His terrible glory. But if we remember Him with joy, happy indeed is our condition.

II. AN INTIMATION OF DUTY — "I remembered God." Alas, how few do remember God I And yet this is the first of all duties. We get a glimpse of Asaph's character. He was not a bad man. But he felt that it was better to probe the wound and open the sore, rather than that it should fester to the death. He would remember God; he would take his sin to God, so as to have it mortified, and then forgiven.

(Homilist.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

WEB: I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.




Recollections of God Painful to the Wicked
Top of Page
Top of Page