Psalm 73:25-26 Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none on earth that I desire beside you.… 1. In those moments when the soul is left desolate, do not still seek comfort from the world. Why would you set your heart upon that which is not? 2. Be not overwhelmed with over-much sorrow. Such feelings are natural in the first flowings of affliction; but it is not meet to indulge and brood over them, so as to abandon the duties of life and sink in melancholy. 3. Harbour not revenge against those who have injured you, or in any way been the cause of your affliction. Revenge stops the sources of Divine consolation. 4. Beware of interrupting your desires toward God by any wilful sin. Afflictions do not intercept, they rather raise the desires to heaven; but every wilful deliberate sin overspreads the soul with a thick cloud, and separates betwixt us and our God. 5. Improve distresses of every kind as means of virtue, and grounds of praise. (S. Charters.) Parallel Verses KJV: Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.WEB: Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you. |
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