Psalm 119

Daily Bread – Reading Through the Word of God in a Year
by Robert M. McCheyne (1813-1843)

(Message #33 from the book Memoirs of Mccheyne, Including His Letters and Messages)

Thy word is very pure; therefore thy servant loveth it.
Psalm 119:140

Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843)

HE APPROACH OF ANOTHER YEAR stirs up within me new desires for your salvation, and for the growth of those of you who are saved.  “God is my record how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ” [Philippians 1:8].  What the coming year is to bring forth, who can tell?  There is plainly a weight lying on the spirits of all good men, and a looking for some strange work of judgment coming upon this land.  There is need now to ask that solemn question: “If in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?” [Jeremiah 12:5]

Those believers will stand firmest who have no dependence upon self or upon creatures, but upon Jehovah our Righteousness. We must be driven more to our Bibles, and to the mercy seat, if we are to stand in the evil day. Then we shall be able to say, like David, “The proud have had me greatly in derision, yet have I not declined from thy law” [Psalm 119:51]. “Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart standeth in awe of thy word” [Psalm 119:161].

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