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Posted by Psalms on Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Psalms 132:6
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
132:6. Meanwhile, where was the habitation of God among men? He was wont to shine forth from between the cherubim, but where was the ark? It was like a hidden thing, a stranger in its own land.
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah. Rumors came that it was somewhere in the land of Ephraim, in a temporary lodging; rather an object of dread than of delight. Is it not wonderful that so renowned a symbol of the presence of God should be lingering in neglect—a neglect so great that it was remarkable that we should have heard of its whereabouts at all? When a man begins to think upon God and his service it is comforting that the Gospel is heard of. Considering the opposition which it has encountered it is marvelous that it should be heard of, and heard of in a place remote from the central city; but yet we are sorrowful that it is only in connection with some poor despised place that we do hear of it.
David instituted a search for the ark. It had to be hunted for high and low; and at last at Kirjath-jearim, the forest-city, he came upon it. How often do souls find Christ and his salvation in out-of-the-way places! What matters where we meet with him so long as we do behold him, and find life in him? That is a blessed Eureka which is embedded in our text—we found it. The matter began with hearing, led on to a search, and concluded in a joyful find.
We found it in the fields of the wood. Alas that there should be no room for the Lord in the palaces of kings, so that he must take to the woods. If Christ be in a wood he will yet be found of those who seek for him. He is as near in the rustic home, embowered among the trees, as in the open streets of the city; he will answer prayer offered from the heart of the black forest where the lone traveler seems out of all hope of hearing. The text presents us with an instance of one whose heart was set upon finding the place where God would meet with him; this made him quick of hearing, and so the cheering news soon reached him. The tidings renewed his ardor, and led him to stick at no difficulties in his search; and so it came to pass that, where he could hardly have expected it, he lighted upon the treasure which he so much prized.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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