Posted by Psalms on Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Psalms 144:15
Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
144:15. Happy is that people, that is in such a case. Temporal blessings are not trifles, for the miss of them would be a dire calamity. It is a great happiness to belong to a people so highly favored. Yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. This comes in as an explanation of their prosperity. Under the Old Testament Israel had present earthly rewards for obedience. This sentence is also a sort of correction of all that had gone before, as if the poet would say, all these temporal gifts are a part of happiness, but still the heart and soul of happiness lies in the people being right with God, and having a full possession of him. Those who worship the happy God become a happy people. Then if we have not temporal mercies literally we have something better.
Happy was the nation which David ruled: happy in its king, its families, its prosperity, and in the possession of peace; but yet more in enjoying true religion and worshiping Jehovah.
Excerpt from:
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
e-Sword v 9.5.1 Copyright 2000-2009 Rick Meyers
www.e-sword.net
