Psalm 77:13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? I. SECRECY. 1. In nature. 2. In providence. Pain and misery abounding; virtue suffering; vice triumphant. 3. In grace. God is behind the veil. Your best knowledge is the consciousness of ignorance, and your privilege it is to be sure that he who believes honours more than he who understands. II. BEAUTY. The loveliness of nature we all have seen; the bloom of infancy, the fresh flower of the early spring, or the wavings of the yellow corn. And some of us have felt the greater loveliness of grace; the unfoldings of the Christian character; the budding of a soft and tender gentleness; the humility; the chastened love; the hope that soars away to brighter worlds; — but has it ever occurred to you to think, if that is the porch, and this the holy place, what must be the sanctuary of God? What shall be that world which is as far better than grace, as grace is better than nature? III. HOLINESS. There never went a prayer from earth fit to be presented before God in the sanctuary — there never passed a thought through your soul to which there was not clinging a sin; for nothing is pleasing before God, not the sanctuary itself, except as He sees it in Christ; and all this is true of our holiest action, were it ten thousand times holier than ever it was. IV. REFUGE. The self-condemning soul flies from the holiness to the love of God, and seeks a shelter from His wrath by throwing himself on His mercy. (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?WEB: Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God? |
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