Homilist Psalm 119:32 I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart. I. ITS ATTAINMENT. 1. It consists in — (1) The true growth of our social sympathies. (2) The true growth of our religious sympathies. 2. It is attainable. Thousands have experienced it. Hearts once encased in sensuality and selfishness, have by the love of Christ widened so as to grasp the world in its sympathies. The narrow-souled atheist has expanded into the greatness of a saint; the mean temporizer has become a moral hero, battling the world for the right. The churlish miser has bounded with an unconquerable love of his race. II. ITS DEVELOPMENT. 1. Man is under law, binding him to purity of thought and rectitude of feeling. 2. A willing obedience to this law is the chief end of man. 3. Where this soul-enlargement is, this obedience will be realized. III. ITS AUTHOR. "Thou." All the influences of nature, the events of Providence, the means of grace are for the enlargement of the soul. .A growing soul is the most interesting object in the universe. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.WEB: I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY |
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