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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 29 October 2012
Psalms 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
119:62. He was not afraid of the robbers; he rose, not to watch his house, but to praise his God. Midnight is the hour for burglars, and there were bands of them around David, but they did not occupy his thoughts; these were all up and away with the Lord his God. He thought not of thieves, but of thanks; not of what they would steal, but of what he would give to his God. A thankful heart is such a blessing that it drives out fear and makes room for praise. Thanksgiving turns night into day, and consecrates all hours to the worship of God. The psalmist did not lie in bed and praise; it would have been no sin to give thanks without rising, but to rise and give thanks is a happy combination. At midnight he would be unobserved and undisturbed; it was his own time which he saved from his sleep, and so he would be free from the charge of sacrificing public duties to private devotions. The righteous doings of the great Judge gladdened the heart of this godly man. His judgments are the terrible side of God, but they have no terror to the righteous; they admire them, and adore the Lord for them: they rise at night to bless God that he will avenge his own elect. Some hate the very notion of divine justice, and in this they are wide as poles asunder from this man of God. Doubtless in the expression thy righteous judgments David refers also to the written judgments of God upon various points of moral conduct; indeed, all the divine precepts may be viewed in that light; they are all of them the legal decisions of the supreme Arbiter of right and wrong. He could not find time enough by day to study the words of divine wisdom, or to bless God for them, and so he gave up his sleep that he might tell out his gratitude for such a law and such a Lawgiver.
This verse is an advance upon the sense of verse 52, and contains in addition the essence of verse 55.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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