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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 29 October 2012
Psalms 119:63
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
119:63. I am a companion of all them that fear thee. The last verse said, “I will,” and this says I am. We can hardly hope to be right in the future unless we are right now. David was a king, and yet he consorted with all who feared the Lord, whether they were obscure or famous, poor or rich. He did not select a few specially eminent saints and leave ordinary believers alone. He looked for inward godly fear, but he also expected to see outward piety in those whom he admitted to his society; hence he adds, and of them that keep thy precepts. David was known to be on the godly side; the men of Belial hated him for this, and no doubt despised him for keeping such unfashionable company as that of humble men and women who were strait-laced and religious; but the man of God is by no means ashamed of his associates. Those who love the saints on earth will be numbered with them in heaven.
There is a measure of parallelism between this seventh of its octave and the seventh verses 71 and 79; but the similarities which were so manifest in earlier verses are now becoming dim. As the sense deepens, the artificial form of expression is less regarded.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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