September 26

TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE

This is my comfort in my affliction: for Thy word hath quickened me. Psalms 119:50
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​Memorize this Verse:

50. T I M C I M A F T W H Q M

Notes on verse:

David had his afflictions, and so has every good man; none are without; it is the will and pleasure of God that so it should be. And many are their afflictions, inward and outward. The word of God is often their comfort under them, the written word, heard or read; and especially a word of promise, powerfully applied. “Comfort”: What the psalmist found in God’s Word (compare verses 52, 76, 82). This is putting underneath everlasting arms, and making their bed in sickness. This either respects what goes before, concerning the word of promise hoped in, or what follows.

“For thy word hath quickened me”: Has made me alive; or, caused me to live. That is, the word, the truth of God, had been the instrument of calling him from the death of sin, and of imparting to him new life. Or had been the means of his regeneration (compare James 1:18; 1 Cor. 4:15; Heb. 4:12; 1 Peter 1:23). As it was by this “word” that he had been made alive, so his only comfort was in that word, and it was to him a just ground of consolation that God had brought him from the death of sin, and had imparted to him spiritual life.

What a shame when someone dies in a family, who does not believe in God. They have nothing to comfort them. Even in the afflictions of Job, he was comforted knowing that the Lord would redeem him. The Word of God brings comfort. Jesus is the quickening Spirit.

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

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