Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them. I. A POSSESSION. 1. There may be peace without great peace. But Christians have great peace. It appertains to a great subject, the soul; it eases great anxieties, those which have to do with our relation to God, and it has an abiding greatness of power, for no man taketh it away. 2. This peace is connected with obedience. The renewed spirit is under the law of the spirit of life. A living Christ rules as truly as a code! He says, "thou shelf not" more successfully. Take the spirit of true love. If I really love, shall I injure in thought, word, look, deed? Not I. The law will rule me everywhere; it will be the law of the spirit of life. 3. Love will be the affectional bond. Here is the strength of the Christian man l Sin becomes distasteful to him — its bread bitter, its waters brackish. In fact, duty is like drawing a triumphal ear; and wearing the thorn-crown is like bearing some insignia of highest order. II. AN EXEMPTION. "Nothing shall offend them." 1. Circumstances do not hurt them, or are not a stumbling-block to them. They are not too careless to despise them, or too heartless, in a human sense, to refuse to extract all the honey out of life's flowers that they can. Things present, as well as "things to come," are theirs. 2. Temptations do not hurt them. Arrows glance harmlessly aside from the impenetrable shield of the Christ-filled soul. 3. Death does not hurt them. How can it? They surely have been meetening for it. It is not always longed for, but it is prepared for. (W. M. Statham.) Parallel Verses KJV: Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.WEB: Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble. |
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