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Posted by Psalms on Friday, 12 February 2016
Psalms 122:6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
122:6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Peace was her name; pray that her condition may verify her title. That sacred shrine stood in the center of an area of peace: well might Israel pray that such peace should be continued. In a church peace is to be desired, expected, promoted, and enjoyed. If we may not say, “Peace at any price,” yet we may certainly cry, “Peace at the highest price.” In a church one of the main ingredients is internal peace: strife, suspicion, party-spirit, division—these are deadly things. Those who break the peace of the church should be our daily prayer, and in so praying we shall bring down peace upon ourselves, for the psalmist goes on to say, They shall prosper that love thee, or perhaps we may read it as a prayer, “May they have peace that love thee.” Prosperity of soul is already enjoyed by those who take a deep interest in the church and the cause of God: they are people of peace, and find peace in their holy endeavors: God’s people pray for them, and God himself delights in them. Prosperity of worldly condition often comes to the lovers of the church if they are able to bear it: many a time the house of Obed-edom is blessed because of the ark of the Lord. Because the Egyptian midwives feared the Lord, therefore the Lord made them houses. No one will ever be a permanent loser by the house of the Lord: in peace of heart alone, if in nothing else, we find recompense enough for all that we can do in promoting the interests of Zion.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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