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Posted by Psalms on Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Psalms 132:10
For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
132:10. King Solomon was praying, and here the people pray for him that his face may not be turned away, or that he may not be refused an audience. It is a dreadful thing to have our face turned away from God, or to have his face turned away from us. If we are anointed of the Spirit the Lord will look upon us with favor. Specially is this true of him who represents us, and is on our behalf the Christ—the truly anointed of the Lord. Jesus is both our David and God’s anointed; in him is found in fullness that which David received in measure. For his sake all those who are anointed in him are accepted. God blessed Solomon and succeeding kings, for David’s sake; and he will bless us for Jesus’ sake. The Son of the Highest took upon himself the form of a servant, to be anointed for us, and to go in before the mercy-seat to plead on our behalf. The psalm sings of the ark, and it may well remind us of the going in of the anointed priest within the veil: all depended upon his acceptance, and therefore well do the people pray, “Turn not away the face of thine anointed.”
Thus, in these three verses, we have a prayer for the temple, the ark, the priests, the Levites, the people, and the king: in each petition there is a fullness of meaning well worthy of careful thought. We cannot plead too much in detail; the fault of most prayers is their indefiniteness. In God’s house and worship everything needs a blessing, and every person connected therewith needs it continually. As David vowed and prayed when he was minded to consecrate the ark, so now the prayer is continued when the temple is consecrated, and the Lord deigns to fill it with his glory. We shall never have done praying till we have done needing.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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