Psalm 4:8 A REQUEST TO BE HEARD BY GOD

It's been a while since I have posted on my blog; but today, the Spirit prompted me to post this commentary by Matthew Henry on Psalm 4:1 and 8.  In this passage David is making a request and plea to be heard by God.  "Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God......"I will lie down and sleep in peace for you along, O Lord, make me dwell in safety."

"He (David) commits all his affairs to God, and contentedly leaves the issue of them with him.  It is said of the husbandman that, having cast his seed into the ground, he sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed springs and grows up, he know not how, Mark 4: 26-27.  So a good man, having by faith and prayer cast his care upon God, sleeps and rests night and day, and is very easy, leaving it to his God to perform all things for him and prepared to welcome his holy will.

In singing these verses, and praying over them, let us, with a holy contempt of the wealth and pleasure of this world, as insufficient to make up happy, earnestly seek the favour of God and pleasingly solace ourselves in that favour; and, with a holy indifferency about the issue of all our world concerns, let us commit ourselves and all our affairs to the guidance and custody of the divine Providence, and be satisfied that all shall be made to work for good to us if we keep ourselves in the love of God."  (Matthew Henry Commentary)

I hope all of you have a great Saturday, October 25, 2014.  Enjoy this beautiful day that the Lord has made and rejoice in his love, care, and guidance; for he is big enough to handle all of our cares, as we live in a world filled with chaos.

Why Should We not Grumble about Our Circumstances???

As Christians why should we not grumble about our circumstances?  In Job 36: 24- 26:  "Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.  Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.  Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out."

Here, according to Matthew Henry,  Elihu is endeavouring to possess Job with great and high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him into a cheerrful submission to his providence.

"The streams of being, power, and perfection should lead us to the fountain.  God is great, infinitely so, --great in power, for he is omnipotent and independent, --great in wealth, for he is self-sufficient and all-sufficient, --great in himself, --great in all his works, --great, and therefore greatly to be praised, --great, and therefore we know him not.  We know that he is, but not what he is.  We know what he is not, but not what he is.  We know in part, but not in perfection.

This comes in here as a reason why we must not arraign his proceedings, nor find fault with what he does, because it is speaking evil of the things that we understand not and answering a matter before we hear of.  We know not the duration of his existence, for it is infinite.  The number of his years cannot possible be searched out, for his is eternal; there is no number of them.  He is a Being without beginning, succession, or period, whoever was, and ever will be, and ever the same, the great
I AM."