Psalms 63:1

"O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is; 2-To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary." (Chrysostom tells us that among the early Christians it was the custom that no day should pass without the public singing of this psalm. This psalm may be said or sung all year long. As David, though king in Israel, had to flee across the Jordan to escape from Absalom, so may the most assured and the most sanctified of God's people be driven for while into a dry and thirsty land. The portrait hanging on the wall represents a smiling ancestor who smiles on, although his estates may have been alienated and his family disgraced. But not so the living parent, who anxiously regards each turn in the affairs of his children. For him there are tears as well as smiles. A person of flesh feels the movement of the years. Living persons must mourn and suffer as well as laugh and rejoice, for minds and hearts must change. We should not wonder, therefore, that the glad-hearted sons of Zion are not always in the temple but sometimes are driven into exile and sigh in a desert land).

Charles H. Spurgeon
Psalms 63:1 "O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is; 2-To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary." (Chrysostom tells us that among the early Christians it was the custom that no day should pass without the public singing of this psalm. This psalm may be said or sung all year long. As David, though king in Israel, had to flee across the Jordan to escape from Absalom, so may the most assured and the most sanctified of God's people be driven for while into a dry and thirsty land. The portrait hanging on the wall represents a smiling ancestor who smiles on, although his estates may have been alienated and his family disgraced. But not so the living parent, who anxiously regards each turn in the affairs of his children. For him there are tears as well as smiles. A person of flesh feels the movement of the years. Living persons must mourn and suffer as well as laugh and rejoice, for minds and hearts must change. We should not wonder, therefore, that the glad-hearted sons of Zion are not always in the temple but sometimes are driven into exile and sigh in a desert land). Charles H. Spurgeon
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