Homilist Psalm 84:2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries out for the living God. The words "soul, heart, flesh," are here used to represent the whole man, human nature in its entirety; and this human nature is here longing, craving, hungering, crying out for the "living God,' nothing less. This means — I. That NOTHING LESS WILL SATISFY HUMANITY. Not a whole universe, not a million pantheons of dead gods; it is the "living God." II. That humanity REQUIRES NO LOGIC TO PROVE THAT THERE IS A GOD. So inwrought into man is the belief of His existence, that the whole being cries out for Him. III. That ANTI-THEISM IS ANTI-HUMANITY. Anti-theism is a lie to our common nature. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. |
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