Yet while we shun them we should pray for them with God their conversion and salvation are possible. How should we then delight to meditate on God's love to sinners in Jesus Christ, the sum of which exceeds all reckoning! Sin is hated, and sinners lamented, by all who fear the Lord. Yet if it were not for his precious thoughts of love to us, our reason and our living for ever would, through our sins, prove the occasion of our eternal misery. But our immortal and rational souls are a still more noble work and gift of God. It would help to keep us in the fear of the Lord all the day long, if, when we wake in the morning, our first thoughts were of him: and how shall we admire and bless our God for his precious salvation, when we awake in the world of glory! Surely we ought not to use our members and senses, which are so curiously fashioned, as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. We cannot think how many mercies we have received from him. Verses 17-24 God's counsels concerning us and our welfare are deep, such as cannot be known. While in the path of duty, he may be happy in any situation, by the exercise of faith, hope, and prayer. No outward circumstances can separate him from his Lord. The grave cannot separate his body from the love of his Saviour, who will raise it a glorious body. Should the persecutor take his life, his soul will the sooner ascend to heaven. On the other hand, the believer cannot be removed from the supporting, comforting presence of his Almighty Friend. Secret haunts of sin are as open before God as the most open villanies. No disguise can save any person or action from being seen in the true light by him. No veil can hide us from God not the thickest darkness. Whither can I go? In the most distant corners of the world, in heaven, or in hell, I cannot go out of thy reach. The psalmist did not desire to go from the Lord. Verses 7-16 We cannot see God, but he can see us. Such thoughts should restrain us from sin. We cannot by searching find how God searches us out nor do we know how we are known. Wherever we are, we are under the eye and hand of God. There is not a vain word, not a good word, but thou knowest from what thought it came, and with what design it was uttered. When I am withdrawn from all company, thou knowest what I have in my heart. He knows what rule we walk by, what end we walk toward, what company we walk with. God takes strict notice of every step we take, every right step and every by step. That God knows all things, is omniscient that he is every where, is omnipresent are truths acknowledged by all, yet they are seldom rightly believed in by mankind. It is more profitable to meditate on Divine truths, applying them to our own cases, and with hearts lifted to God in prayer, than with a curious or disputing frame of mind. Verses 1-6 God has perfect knowledge of us, and all our thoughts and actions are open before him. (7-16) The psalmist's hatred to sin, and desire to be led aright.
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