Psalm 130:5-6 I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope.… I. BY WHOM CAN THIS LANGUAGE BE APPROPRIATED? 1. By the penitent. 2. By the backslider. 3. By the afflicted Christian. 4. By the Christian about to die. As the long absent child, arrived at the door of his father's house, pants for admittance there, so does the soul of the believer, on the threshold of eternity, wait for its God. II. ON WHAT GROUND MAY THE LANGUAGE OF THE TEXT BE APPROPRIATED WITH CONFIDENT EXPECTATION. 1. "The Word of the Lord," it should never be forgotten, "is a tried Word." It has cheered the gloomy, and strengthened the feeble, and animated the dying. 2. The extent of a Christian's privileges no mind can embrace. Take him at his worst state, in the difficulties of his first approach to God; in subsequent darkness; or in death; having still an interest in the promises of God, he claims an inheritance which monarchs might envy, and which angels delight to share. (O. A. Jeary.) Parallel Verses KJV: I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. |
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