Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Psalms
Book: Psalms
Chapter: 130
Overview:
The psalmist's
Humility. Believers encouraged to trust in
God.
- The psalmist aimed at nothing high or great, but to be content
in every condition
God allotted. Humble saints cannot think
So
Well of themselves as others think of them. The
Love of
God
reigning in the
Heart, will subdue self-
Love. Where there is a
proud
Heart, there is commonly a proud look. To know
God and our
duty, is learning sufficiently high for us. It is our
Wisdom not
to meddle with that which does not belong to us. He was
Well
reconciled to every condition the
Lord placed him in. He had
been as humble as a little
Child about the
Age of weaning, and
as far from aiming at high things; as entirely at
God's
disposal, as the
Child at the disposal of the mother or nurse.
We must become as little children, Mt 18:3. Our hearts are
desirous of worldly things, cry for them, and are fond of them;
but,
By the
Grace of
God, a soul that is made holy, is weaned
from these things. The
Child is
Cross and fretful while in the
weaning; but in a
Day or two it cares
No longer for
Milk, and it
can
Bear stronger
Food. Thus does a converted soul quiet itself
under the loss of what it loved, and disappointments in what it
hoped for, and is easy whatever happens. When our condition is
not to our mind, we must bring our mind to our condition; then
we are easy to ourselves and all about us; then our souls are as
a weaned
Child. And thus the psalmist recommends confidence in
God, to all the
Israel of
God, from his own experience. It is
good to
Hope, and quietly to wait for the
Salvation of the
Lord
under every trial.