Homilist Psalm 86:11 Teach me your way, O LORD; I will walk in your truth: unite my heart to fear your name. Unity of heart is essential — I. TO FORCE OF CHARACTER. Mind, like light, air, water, diffused, is comparatively worthless; compressed, it is mighty. Condense the rays of the sun, and they shall burn up the world; compress the air, and it shall rive the mountains. There are three states in which we find mind in this world. 1. Unconcentrated. Millions of men have no definite object in the world, they are distracted and unstable. 2. Wrongly concentrated. There are minds set upon inferior objects, such as business, polities, literature, science, etc. 3. Rightly concentrated. It is trotted to "fear Thy name." United in God, centred in Omnipotence. II. TO PEACE OF SOUL. The mind divided is distracted and disharmonious. Peace requires that all the faculties and affections of the soul flow in one direction towards one object, and that object agreeing with our dictates of right and our highest aspirations. God alone is such an object. Our constant prayer should be, "Unite my heart to fear Thy name." (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.WEB: Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name. |
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