The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 92:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

It is good to give thanks.

It is so for many reasons.

I. BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT. God deserves our thanksgiving.

1. Did he not create us, and so start us on the road to eternal life?

2. Does he not preserve us, and bless us daily with gifts innumerable?

3. Has he not redeemed us by the sacrifice of his Son? "For God so loved the world," etc.

4. Is not the Holy Spirit with us still, ever seeking to lead us nearer God, and to sustain us in every hour of trial and sorrow?

5. And have we not the blessed hope which stretches on into life eternal? Yes; it is right to give thanks.

II. AND IT IS PLEASANT. "Is any merry? let him sing psalms,"—so said St. James. And they who know affirm that the sense of God's love, which is the substance of praise, is joy indeed.

III. AND IT RIDS US OF OUR PERSISTENT TORMENTOR—SELF. Self sinks out of sight, and God alone is seen, and that is blessed.

IV. DOUBT CANNOT ABIDE IT. "Come, Melancthon, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil,"—such was one of Luther's sayings. And praise does drive doubt away.

V. SOULS ARE WON TO GOD BY IT. It is winsome, comely, irresistibly attractive.—S.C.

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