Psalm 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. I. THE GLORIOUS SPEAKER — GOD HIMSELF. 1. The God for whom a habitation has been prepared in the Church. If you enjoy the blessing of God upon your provision, you will cheerfully contribute your mite for preparing Him a habitation. 2. The God who hath chosen Zion, and taken up His habitation in her. By this means He knows every circumstance relative to her and to every one of her members; lie is ready to hear all the requests of His people, and to grant them without loss of time. 3. The God from whom all her provision comes. As He knows what provision is suitable to every one's taste, and to every one's need, He knows what blessing is proper to make every one's provision effectual for affording him the promised satisfaction. II. THE PARTY SPOKEN OF — ZION. The Church is spoken of in the feminine gender, chiefly to put us in mind of two things. 1. Of her weakness and helplessness, considered in herself. 2. Of that happy relation that subsists between Christ and her. So close and intimate is that mysterious relation, that it can be compared to no other earthly relation — so fitly as to that between husband and wife. He has betrothed her to Himself for ever. He nourishes and cherishes her as a loving husband the wife of his youth. III. THE BENEFIT PROMISED — A BLESSING. As soon as any person is brought into a state of union with Christ, and is blessed in Him, — being justified freely by the grace of God; not only is that person adjudged to happiness, but that sentence has an effect upon all that he meets with in the course of Providence. All the common benefits of life have a commission from God to be means, not merely of rendering his present life happy, as far as happiness is attainable here, — but likewise of preparing him for eternal happiness, and of conducting him to it. Yea, the trials, afflictions, and miseries of this life, are all under an appointment of God, to be conducive to the same end (2 Corinthians 4:17). IV. THE MORE IMMEDIATE SUBJECT OF THIS BLESSING — HER PROVISION. The-spiritual Israel have nothing of their own to support the life of their souls: and the wilderness, through which they pass, affords nothing fit for that purpose. They behoved, therefore, to perish, if their Heavenly Father did not give them the true bread from heaven, which is no other than the flesh and blood of His own eternal Son, which He gave for the life of the world. V. THE DEGREE IN WHICH THIS BLESSING IS BESTOWED — ABUNDANTLY. (John Young, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.WEB: I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. |
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