Homiletic Review Psalm 119:140 Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it. 1. A love to Divine things for the beauty of their moral excellency is the spring of all holy affections. 2. There is given to believers a new, supernatural sense, which perceives the beauty of holiness and is affected thereby. A holy object calls out a holy affection. The beauty and sweetness of holiness as found in God forms the grand object of a spiritual taste and appetite. 3. This moral beauty in God leads to the adoration of God by saint and angel.CONCLUSIONS. 1. By this all may try their affections, their love and their joy. Graceless persons see no beauty in holy things. 2. The natural mind may have a great sense of God's greatness, wisdom and power: that is, of His natural attributes. 3. This sense of the natural mind may affect men in various ways — fill them with awe and terror, or with joy and praise. Hence too much stress may be placed upon the mere natural discoveries of the natural attributes in God. Man may be overwhelmed by a sense of God's greatness and majesty, and yet be without a particle of love to Divine things. But to the spiritual mind the natural attributes of God are all the more engaging because they are supplemented by His moral attributes. 4. And so, I may add, what love to Divine things do those possess who seem to be filled with worldliness, and are so fond of operas, theatres and frivolous amusements? (Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.WEB: Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them. |
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