Psalms 63

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM LXIII.—What a dry and barren wilderness is this world, with nothing in it that can satisfy the longings of a soul! And, the more we find of the emptiness of created enjoyments, the more we should fly to the fulness of God, as our God and all-sufficient portion. They who have experienced fellowship with him, and discoveries of his glory in public ordinances, will feelingly regret the want of them, and ardently desire the re-enjoyment of them 4 But great is the mercy that God himself, the fountain of happiness, and his throne of grace, are every where accessible. And, if our hearts be refreshed with the tokens of his favour, they ought to be enlarged in his praise. Happy and delightful is it to meditate on his loving-kindness—and in his strength to follow him closely in the means of grace and paths of duty. It is his help and favour only that can tune our hearts to praise him while we enjoy his protection.—Dreadful is the destruction of the enemies of Jesus Christ and his people! but eternal shall be the honours, and unspeakable the joys, of him and his children, while all their malicious reproachers and discouragers shall be filled with astonishment, and struck into endless silence and confusion