Grace is poured upon Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.PSALM 45:2+Fountain of GraceFrom [Christ's] mouth, as from some overflowing fountain, the richest promises and teachings stem, and...  Read More

You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.PSALM 45:2+Celebrating the KingThis is the first sweet and delightful thing in this ...  Read More

My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the King; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.PSALM 45:1+To Be the PenJust as a man uses the tongue as a tool with which he pro...  Read More

Psalm 45: To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah: a love song.PSALM 45 (the title)+Changed by GraceWherever the word "song" (canticum) is used in psalm titles, it must ...  Read More

For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. But You have saved us from our foes.PSALM 44:6-7+Arms Made ReadyIt is indeed a great honor that Jacob has the courage to say that the bows, the ...  Read More

For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. But You have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us.PSALM 44:6-7+The Busy HandUnder the surface sign of things at hand G...  Read More

All Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.PSALM 42:7+SuspendedAll Thy waves (v. 7) can also be taken in a good sense, namely, that the high waves, that is, the swirling waters of the deep and...  Read More

Deep calls to deep at the roar of Your waterfalls.PSALM 42:7+Wisdom Hidden in MysteryGod's cataracts [or "waterfalls"] are the preachers of the Gospel. The Lord has opened them up and has poured down ...  Read More

Why are you cast down, 0O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.PSALM 42:5+Something GreaterThe time of grace is when the he...  Read More

My iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see. . .. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me!PSALM 40:12-13+A Light to SeeWhen the conscience blames, then man is distressed and says with David in Psalm 4...  Read More

Then I said, "Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of Me: I delight to do Your will, O My God."PSALM 40:7-8+One WillThe right basis for knowing Christ's suffering is to know an...  Read More

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry…. For I am a sojourner with You, a guest, like all my fathers.PSALM 39:12+Citizens in HopeTo those who believe and have God's promise, this life is a wan...  Read More