Psalm 73:25-26 Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none on earth that I desire beside you.… Man himself is not sufficient for his own happiness. Because he is liable to so many evils; so full of wants; compassed about with so many infirmities, and this from youth to old age. Think what evils would happen to man if the providence of God did not rule the world. Man, therefore, needs a source of happiness outside himself. 1. It must be an all-sufficient good. 2. It must be perfect goodness. 3. It must be firm and unchangeable in itself. 4. It must be such a good as none can deprive us of, and take away from us. 5. It must be eternal. 6. It must be able to support and comfort us in every condition, and under all the accidents and adversities of human life. 7. It must be such a good as can give perfect rest and tranquillity to our minds.Nothing that is short of all this can make us happy: and no creature, no, not the whole creation, can pretend to be all this to us. All these properties meet only in God, who is the perfect and supreme good; and, consequently, God is the only happiness of man. (J. Tillotson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.WEB: Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you. |
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