The Bible Commentaries and Others: Psalms 146 v 5

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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 18 January 2016

Psalms 146:5

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

146:5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help. He has happiness indeed: the true and the real delight is with him. The God of Jacob is the God of the covenant, the God of wrestling prayer, the God of the tried believer; he is the only living and true God, who led the tribes of Jacob out of Egypt, and through the wilderness. The Lord never dies, neither do his thoughts perish; his purpose of mercy, like himself, endures throughout all generations. Hallelujah!

Whose hope is in the LORD his God. He is happy in help for the present and in hope for the future who has placed all his confidence in Jehovah, who is his God by a covenant of salt. Happy is he when others are despairing! Happiest shall he be in that very hour when others are discovering the depths of agony. We have here a statement which we have personally tried and proved: resting in the Lord, we know a happiness which is beyond description, beyond comparison, beyond conception. Unless Jehovah be his God no one can find confidence in the fact that he was Jacob’s God; but when by faith we know the Lord to be ours, then we are “rich to all the intents of bliss.”

Excerpt from:

The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)