Helps for the Pulpit Psalm 36:7-8 How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.… I. THE SUBJECT OF THE TEXT. "Thy loving-kindness, O God." 1. Manifested — (1) In creation. (2) In providence. (3) In grace. 2. Felt or experienced — (1) In conversion. (2) In reconciliation and adoption. (3) In Christian fellowship and communion with God. (4) In ordinances and promises. (5) In heaven. II. ITS EXCELLENCE. This appears — 1. In being manifested to the most unworthy. 2. In the multitude of blessings of which it is the source. 3. It gives security in all dangers, and produces confidence. 4. It is infinitely satisfying. 5. It is constant. 6. It is pregnant with prospective blessedness and ineffable glory.APPLICATION. 1. Does your experience lead you to admire this loving-kindness? 2. If not, it is a proof of slothfulness, and barrenness, and calls for repentance. 3. However much of this loving-kindness you enjoy now, it is but a foretaste. (Helps for the Pulpit.) Parallel Verses KJV: How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. |
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