Psalm 113:5-8 Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high,… I. HIS INCONCEIVABLE GREATNESS (ver. 5). 1. The place of His habitation. With great propriety, heaven, and the heaven of heavens, though they cannot contain God's essence, are represented to us as the place of His immediate abode; there His glory dwells. This heaven is called the high and the holy place. "He dwelleth on high," far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named. 2. His infinite superiority to the greatest of beings and the greatest of things. The purest and loftiest angel that stands in the presence of God is far removed beneath Him. How much more must He stoop, then, to behold the things that are done on the earth, things of the greatest interests — things that in our view swell into the mightiest importance. II. HIS MATCHLESS GOODNESS (vers. 6-8). 1. The ministrations of His providence. 2. The manifestations of His grace. Consider not only the general scheme of our recovery by grace Divine, through the humiliation, and suffering, and death, and burial of the Divine Redeemer, but consider the manner in which this salvation is applied by the sovereign and gracious operations of the Holy Spirit. 3. The revelations of eternity. "Eye hath not seen," etc. III. WHAT PRACTICAL LESSONS MAY WE LEARN FROM THE COMBINED OR ASSOCIATED DISPLAY OF THE GREATNESS AND GOODNESS OF GOD. 1. Let it fix on our minds a deep sense of our own insignificance, meanness, and vileness. 2. Let it promote reverence in worship. 3. Let it nourish in our bosoms confidence towards God. 4. Let it scatter — (1) Those doubts of scepticism, and those hesitations of infidelity which are too industriously spread amongst us at the present day. The minute observation which God's providence takes of the affairs of men. (2) The efficacy of believing prayer. (G. Clayton.) Parallel Verses KJV: Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, |
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