Homilist Psalm 119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love. I. THE HATED. "I hate vain thoughts." The number of these is legion, the variety all but endless. Vain thoughts may include worthless thoughts on true subjects as well as on false. Vain thoughts are — 1. Always worthless. They are empty, vapid, unsatisfactory, and unenduring. 2. Always criminal. Man is endowed with the thinking faculty in order to think accurately, righteously, and devoutly. 3. Always pernicious. Vain thoughts are the weeds, the fungi, the parasites, the mildew of the soul. II. THE LOVED. "Thy law do I love." Why should the Divine law be loved? 1. It is a revelation of the morally beautiful. It is the transcript of the mind, that which is the "beauty of holiness." 2. It is a guide to the truly happy. It is a map to guide to the heavenly inheritance, a compass directing to the celestial shore. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. |
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