Psalm 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. God is everywhere, and yet the verse tells us where He is not — in the thoughts of wicked men. This is — 1. A notorious fact. Millions live day by day as if God were not. 2. An astounding fact. It is unnatural, impious, calamitous. Why, then, is God not in their thoughts? I. NEGATIVELY. 1. It is not because there can be any doubt as to the importance of thinking of God. 2. Nor because there is any lack of means to remind men of Him. All things are full of Him. 3. Nor because of the unbroken regularity of the material world. In heaven, where there is the same regularity, their minds ever delight in Him. 4. Nor because man has no consciousness of restraint in action. But all holy souls are equally free. II. POSITIVELY. The cause is in the heart. 1. Fear — the guilty conscience. 2. Dislike; hence men exclude God from their thoughts. Learn, the appalling wickedness of man, and his need of Christ. (D. Thomas, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.WEB: The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God. |
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