First, by this that he desireth God to teach him to do His will, because He was his God, we learn that it is not in our own arbitrament or choice to do God’s will, but His special grace, who preventeth us by His favour, and becometh our God, and after frameth us to do His will and obey Him. 2. He felt that he was weak, and needed strength to do, as well as enlightening to know, God’s will. "And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified." (F. W. They whose religion has not reached that apex have yet to understand its highest meaning. David's history illustrates it, and his spirit breathes in it. I. of There is a better thing to ask than exemption from sorrows, even grace to bear them rightly. It shows what indeed God is to the soul in all its many moods. Deliverance? ’Tis He who quickens and illuminates, ’tis He who teaches and leads. : either into a right land, as the Targum, where honesty prevails, and honest and upright men live; or, "through a plain way"F1בארץ מישור "per terram planam", Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/psalms-143.html. Psalm 143 Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies. Our better selves sit within like some prisoned king, surrounded and ‘fooled by the rebel powers’ of his revolted subjects; and our best recourse is to send an embassy to the Over-lord, the Sovereign King, praying Him to come to our help. But, considering the particular circumstances of the Psalmist in these two psalms, I am inclined to think that he prays to God to be safely conducted into the plain country out of that rude mountainous wild where he was now forced to secrete himself. A life of obedience to the will of God is likened to some far stretching plain, easy to traverse, broken by no barren mountains or frowning cliffs, but basking, peaceful and fruitful, beneath the smile of God. IV. He prays for comfort, guidance, and deliverance. A.). 7:3-5, 8; 18:20). Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Our religion brings to us sweet and gracious consolations, but it is a poor affair if we only use it as an anodyne and a comfort. I trust that we shall never fail to see that on God’s good Spirit we are dependent for all good things, and that that Church is doomed to waste away to absolute nothingness and uselessness which does not draw its fresh supplies of strength each day and hour from God the Holy Ghost. He is almighty; there is no limit to His power. Learn more. In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble. In Psalm 143, David laments his circumstances and feels that every step he takes is under attack from his enemies, who are persecuting his soul. I. Notice a few rules for active obedience. Psalms 143 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary, written by 29 eminent scholars, is one of the most-recognized standards of expository commentaries ... Psalms 143:10 b is best taken as a continuous sentence, embodying a prayer for guidance. He did not only pray in that affliction, but he prayed very much and very often, not the same over again, but new thoughts. Psalm 142 Psalm 144 ... Advance your knowledge of Scripture with this resource library of over 40 reference books, including commentaries and Study Bible notes. BibliographyBarnes, Albert. Like the psalmist, we must seek to be taught obedience to God’s will. (1) Ezekiel is emphatically the prophet of the moral significance of the Law and of personal responsibility. 1859. land. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "way"; others, with Syriac, read "path". Psalm 143:3 also recalls Psalm 7:6, but as to the words it sounds like Lamentations 3:6 (cf. 10.Teach me that I may do thy will. This psalm, as those before, is a prayer of David, and full of complaints of the great distress and danger he was in, probably when Saul persecuted him. Secondly, that if He be our God, and we will call upon Him in our troubles, it were requisite we should frame ourselves to obey Him. My brother! "Teach me to do thy will" (Psalms 143:10). The tempest blows him to the throne of God; and when he is there, what does he ask? 1801-1803. Browse Sermons on Psalm 143:10. A law has been given which can give life. He saith not, Teach me to know thy will, but to do thy will. II. “Land of uprightness” is Hebrew for “a level country,” one in which he can see a long distance, and determine his course with ease and safety. Remember all the hindrances that rise between us and it; these wild passions of ours, this obstinate gravitating of tastes and desires towards earth, these animal necessities, these spiritual perversities, which make up so much of us all-how can we coerce these into submission? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/psalms-143.html. The Psalmist’s longings are expressed in the first of them in plain words, and in the second in a figure. This immense variety of mood, and subject, and occasion, with which reverence and hope are always combined, is the further point in the work of the Book of. More generally, the passage teaches us what we are to think of free will; for David here denies the will to have the power of judging rightly, till our hearts be formed to a holy obedience by the Spirit of God. A man must have gone a very little way, very superficially and perfunctorily, on the path of seeking to make himself what he ought to be, unless he has found out that he cannot do it, and unless he has found out that there is only one way to do it, and that is to go to God and say, ‘O Lord! He felt that God’s will was best. The best and holiest must feel that they have reason to prostrate themselves before the Lord. III. from what quarter does He reach to us? In this semblance He lighted upon Jesus. We have a right to go to Him and to say to Him, ‘Thou art my God; and Thou wilt not be what Thou art, nor do what Thou hast pledged Thyself to do, unless Thou makest me to know and to do Thy will.’. This psalm of David most aptly answereth to that psalm which precedes it; for in Ps 142:1-7 he showeth that he prayed, repeating it twice (Ps 143:1); and here he twice saith, "Hear my prayer, give ear to my supplication." If I have thee, may I not ask to have thy perfect mind? ), Land of uprightness.—Better, level land (Deuteronomy 4:43, “plain country;” comp. We have no righteousness of our own to plead, therefore must plead God's righteousness, and the word of promise which he has freely given us, and caused us to hope in... View the entire commentary. He who teaches us must put us into leading strings, and guide and conduct us to his own dwelling place in the country of holiness. To such practical conformity to the will of God all other aspects of religion are meant to be subservient. Commentaries for Psalm Chapter 143 David complains of his enemies and distresses. They are better gone. Two childlike requests -- "Teach me ... lead me. Into such a garden of the Lord the Psalmist prays to be led. 2. True, it destroys, but it destroys only what we are better rid of Dead wood, broken branches, withered leaves, these He sweeps away as with a bosom. - -J. F. The best lesson; for who so good a teacher as God? BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. Willem VanGemeren (Expositor’s Bible Commentary, ed. Teach me to do thy will] Orat nunc pro salute animae, ut ante pro corporis, saith Kimchi. Just so it stands here in its own grand sufficiency, "Thy Spirit is good." He desired to be led, as it were, into a “level” country where he might be safe. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. 5. It is a vast step in the revealing of man to man. Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God. Psalm 88:7). There is a reason for expecting it. If He be ‘my God,’ there can be no deeper desire in His heart, than that His will should be my will. There are two kinds of active obedience: one which is called negative, which consists in refraining from something because God has commanded us to refrain, but which can still be called active, because it ranges from action, and the other because it lies in the direct doing of what we are ordered. "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". Thy spirit is good] The fruit of it is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, Ephesians 5:9, and it is the Spirit only that quickeneth, John 6:63, by purging out the dross that is in us, 1 Peter 1:22, setting us to work, Ezekiel 36:27, helping our infirmities, Romans 8:26; stirring us up to holy duties, partly by immediate motions, and partly by the ministry of the word made effectual, 1 Peter 1:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:13. It was a true principle when David laid the base of everything in the kindness of the Spirit. They know now that they are no more their own, but his; and therefore should now live to him. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/psalms-143.html. ", Verse 10. 1840-57. Brother! BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Psalms 143:10". (A. Psalms 143:10 Context. Something is to be done. Used by Permission. Utopia -- "the land of uprightness." Verse 10. The Divine guarantee that this practical conformity shall be ours. He could not reach them of himself; he must be led there. ), “Thy will be done” is not a prayer of resignation only. The old Psalter has, Thi goste gude sal lede me into rygt lande. Psalm 143:10(NASB) Verse Thoughts. "Commentary on Psalms 143:10". A heart cannot long be desolate which is thus docile. To be found doing the will of God is the only safe state for man. … Psalm 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. What He does, as well as what He is and whence He comes, substantiates this fact. “Thy Spirit is good” we may well exclaim, when we think both of His terrible acts, and of the might of those acts of mercy which have made Him renowned and revered to every believer. Deficiency acknowledged. The Holy Ghost is compared to a dove, that gentlest of feathered fowl. The great essential to a religious life is active obedience to God’s will. He guides into all truth: truth of thought first, truth of feeling next, truth of action afterwards. When he says, Because thou art my God, he shows that his confidence of obtaining his request was founded entirely upon the free favor and promises of God. The Psalmist’s longings are expressed in the first of them in plain words, and in the second in a figure. "Sermon Bible Commentary". (2) With this faith in the soul has come the stirring and enlightening conscience. 3. See Psalms 125:5 Proverbs 2:15 Isaiah 40:4. JOSEPH A ALEXANDER Psalms Commentary (1864) Spurgeon had high praise for Alexander's work writing that it "Occupies a first place among expositions. So high on wings of faith and desire soared this man, who, at the beginning of his psalm, was crushed to the dust by enemies and by dangers. Desire expressed. Psalms. It is true indeed obedience to the law is not required of us now as it was of Adam; it was required of him as a condition antecedent to life, but of those that be in Christ it is required only as a duty consequent to life, or as a rule of life, that seeing he hath purchased our lives in redemption, and actually given us life in vocation and sanctification, we should now live unto him, in all thankful and fruitful obedience, according to his will revealed in the moral law. As the modeller will take a piece of wax into his hand, and by warmth and manipulation make it soft and pliable, so Jesus Christ, if we let Him, will take our hard hearts into His hands, and by gentle, loving, subtle touches, will shape them into the pattern of His own perfect beauty, and will mould all their vagrant inclinations and aberrant distortions into ‘one immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.’ ‘The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,’ controlling ourselves, ‘righteously,’ fulfilling all our obligations to our fellows, ‘and godly,’ referring everything to Him, ‘in this present world.’. Teach me to do thy will … - To do that which will be agreeable or pleasing to thee; which will meet with thy approbation. God is no hard Taskmaster who sets us to make bricks without straw. ii., p. 198; S. Baring-Gould, One Hundred Sermon Sketches, p. 163; G. Matheson, Moments on the Mount, p. 219; Preacher's Lantern, vol. 1871-8. Isaiah 26:10; Psalms 27:11.). ‘I delight to do Thy will, yea! — Psalm 143:10 NIV. Psalms 143 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this seven volume magnum opus was first published in weekly installments in The Sword and the Trowel Hi, Sign out. Whole Psalm. That practical conformity to the divine will requires, still further, the operation of the divine Spirit as our Guide. Saxton.). The river of the water of life that proceeds from the throne of God and the Lamb is not sent merely to refresh thirsty lips and to bring music into the silence of a waterless desert, but it is sent to drive the wheels of life. The best reason for asking and expecting instruction: "For thou art my God." The soul cannot be alone without Him; He is the centre of attraction to all His creatures, the fountain and the loadstone of all love, high above the highest, yet humbling Himself "to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth." Lead me into the land of uprightness - Or rather here, “land of evenness;” level ground; ground where I may walk without the dangers to which I am exposed where I am now, in a place of ambuscades, caverns, rocks, where I may be assailed at any moment without the power of seeing my enemy, or of defending myself. We have no righteousness of our own to plead, therefore must plead God's righteousness, and the word of promise which he has freely given us, and caused us to hope in... View the entire commentary. He is holy. And his prayer for “teaching” is deepened in the second clause of our text into a petition which sets the felt need and the coveted help in a still more striking light, in its cry for the touch of God’s good spirit to guide, as by a hand grasping the psalmist’s hand into the paths of obedience. Commentary for Psalms 143 . Are we doing it? ‘Thou art my God’; his faith apprehends a personal bond between him and God, and feels that that bond obliges God to teach him His will. Knowledge alone is positively criminal. - Verse-by-Verse Commentary As anxiety, fear, disease, languor, or pain, often tempt persons to particular steps, David’s example should bad us to pray for divine restraint, and that we may not be hurried, through impulses of feeling, into unjustifiable courses. ... Psalm 143:10 Psalm 143:12 Read Psalm 143:11. He comes into our hearts, He moulds our wills, His teaching is by inward impulses and communications of desire and power to do, as well as of light to know. (G. And there was a deep acquaintance with the philosophy of all moral truth when David brought together a Spirit of kindness and a "land of uprightness." Who else can teach me as thou canst? (Haydock) --- Hast. There is no certain evidence that the psalmist here refers distinctively to the Holy Spirit, considered as the Third Person of the Trinity; but the prayer is one for guidance from on high in the day of darkness and trouble. Now, the Holy Ghost is still engaged in this sacred service, creating, recreating, making hearts new, bringing chaos out of the void, brooding over the darkness and disorder and transforming them into brightness and beauty. Malachi 2:6 Isaiah 11:4 Psalms 45:7 67:5 143:10. BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. Jeremiah 48:21), here metaphorically of tranquility and happiness. III. His essence is goodness, kindness, holiness: it is his nature to do good, and what greater good can he do to us than to hear such a prayer as that which follows -- Lead we into the land of uprightness? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/psalms-143.html. It calls for action, not passivity. That’s why Psalm 143 is in the Bible, because we need this additional lesson on how to pray correctly when we face severe trials. To do all of it, let it be what it may. It will not lead astray. With whom is He associated? The Holy Spirit may be compared to dew-cheering, beautifying, fertilizing. Psalms 143:10. That spirit is wise, prudent, judicious, reliable. The New Testament vindicates and fulfils it when it says ‘We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.’ Since He now dwells in ‘the land of uprightness,’ who once dwelt among us in this weary world of confusion and of sin, then we one day shall be with Him. As the knowledge of God’s will in the particular circumstances of life. The knowledge is not in itself religion; but the Christian is “that faithful and wise servant whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find so doing.” Hence perfection of character consists not in knowledge, but obedience, because--, 1. III. Hear my prayer, O LORD: This psalm describes David in another crisis. And whoever, humbly trusting to that great Father in the heavens, feels that he belongs to God, and that God belongs to him, is warranted in praying, ‘Teach me, and make me, to do Thy will,’ and in being confident of an answer. (7-12) 1-6 We have no righteousness of our own to plead, therefore must plead God's righteousness, and the word of promise which he has freely given us, and caused us to hope in. — Psalm 143:10. You and I have Jesus Christ for our Teacher, the answer to the psalm. BibliographyBeza, Theodore. On our own, we have no personal power to stand up under the weight of these two realities. Are we? Further, I want to call to your mind His several offices, for these are proofs that He is good. Our Christianity brings to us glorious hopes that flash lustre into the darkness, and make the solitude of the grave companionship, and the end of earth the beginning of life, but it is a poor affair if the mightiest operation of our religion be relegated to a future, and flung on to the close. BibliographyMacLaren, Alexander. Chapter 143 This psalm, as those before, is a prayer of David, and full of complaints of the great distress and danger he was in, probably when Saul persecuted him. Ver. It could be from the time before David was recognized as king, living as a fugitive from King Saul, or it could be f… This is opposed to the crooked and rugged ways, in which sinners are said to walk. "Commentary on Psalms 143:10". And on the other hand, if we have taken Him for ours, and have the bond knit from our side as well as from His, then the fact of our faith gives us a claim on Him which He is sure to honour. Genesis 37:2. (1) Towards God Himself they are either acts of trustful affection, such as the casting of the soul upon God; or acts of worship and adoration, such as prayer and praise, whether public or private, and the holy sacraments; or work done for the extension of God's kingdom upon the earth; or any action which is performed simply for the glory of God. BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. We see in the Psalms how it has learned to look into itself, how it has learned the need of the inward watch, the inward struggle, the inward self-disclosure. It needs to be answered. “For Thou art my God.”. (Read Psalm 143:1-6) We have no righteousness of our own to plead, therefore must plead God's righteousness, and the word of promise which he has freely given us, and caused us to hope in. We do not know who wrote this psalm. See "Spurgeon's Sermons", No. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". 2. Matthew Henry :: Commentary on Psalms 143 ← Back to Matthew Henry's Bio & Resources. It is possible for a man to have a Scriptural creed and to have an ungodly heart. But to make any of these "active obedience" two things are absolutely necessary. 1905. Psalm 143: Again David is beset by enemies, and again he knows to whom he must turn. We cannot will to will as God wills, but we can turn ourselves to Him, and ask Him to put the power within us which shall subdue the evil, conquer the rebels, and make us masters of our own else anarchic and troubled spirits. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? There is no inheritance like a portion in the land of promise, the land of precept, the land of perfectness. Teach me to do thy will. --- Malicious. The fiery cloudy pillar was the outward sign of Divine guidance, hut it is written, “Thou gavest also Thy good Spirit to instruct them.” In special cases, where much wisdom and judgment were required, the Holy Ghost was the Author of these good things. ‘To do God’s will’ is to be in ‘the land of uprightness.’ Get into the draught of that wind, I beseech you, it is a trade wind that wafts us to our desired haven. 2. Note, then, first, God’s personal relation to the devout soul, as the guarantee that that soul shall be taught, not merely to know, but also to do His will. You know that fire is a good servants, if a bad master, but the Holy Ghost as fire is good both as master and servant. a. Help me to do Thy will, to take my stand, and say, ‘As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.’” It is a blessed prayer. He prays for comfort, guidance, and deliverance. (6) Your obedience must be your liberty and your joy. So he must of necessity be an atheist who saith in his heart, there is no God; who professeth God in his mouth, and in his works denieth Him; following his own pleasure in place of God’s will. Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. Psalms 143:11 - For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. Not merely to know, but "to do.". The will is to be done by men. The last clause of my text may either be read as our Bible has it, ‘Thy Spirit is good; lead me,’ or ‘Let Thy good Spirit lead me.’ In either case the goodness of the divine Spirit is the plea on which the prayer is grounded. "Commentary on Psalms 143:10". Hear my prayer, O LORD,Give ear to my supplications!In Your faithfulness answer me,And in Your righteousness.Do not enter into judgment with Your servant,For in Your sight no one living is righteous. 3. We have His example to stand as our perfect law. ‘Thy Spirit is good,’ and therefore the trusting spirit has a right to ask to be made good likewise. Christ’s heart cannot be satisfied, Christ’s Cross cannot be rewarded, the divine nature cannot be at rest, the purpose of redemption cannot be accomplished, until all who have trusted in Christ be partakers of divine purity, and all the wanderers be led by devious and yet by right paths, by crooked and yet by straight ways, by places rough and yet smooth, into ‘the land of uprightness.’ Where and what He is, there and that shall also His servants be. First, by his word. Psalms 143 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary is from the most widely read and often quoted preacher in history, Charles Haddon Spurgeon Whence is the Spirit? The Spirit's direction hath strength joined with it. BibliographyCoke, Thomas. Upgrade to the best Bible Gateway experience! ‘He shall guide you,’ said the Master, ‘into all truth’-not merely into its knowledge, but into its performance, not merely into truth of conception, but into truth of practice, which is righteousness, and the fulfilling of the Law. 2. Browse Sermons on Psalm 143:10. As to the practical skill of doing the will of God. BibliographyClarke, Adam. Grant me “that” spirit, and I shall be certain that I am going in the right path. Psalm 143. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Study the bible online using commentary on Psalm 143:11 and more! Teach me to do thy will. Christianity is a revelation of truth, but to accept it as such is not enough. Aspiration revealed. Learn more Start my trial Back . Bible students think that David wrote verses 1-6 of this psalm. --Cunningham Geikie, in "Hours with the Bible", 1884. Still He seals His saints, still He is the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.” It is even now His blessed function to bear witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/psalms-143.html. Psalm 143:10 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Psalm 143:10, NIV: "Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground." Teach me to do thy will Revealed in the word; which saints desire a greater knowledge of in order to do it, and in which they delight; and also are desirous of being taught, and to practise submission to the will of God under afflictions; which was now the case of the psalmist; Copyright StatementThese files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship.This expanded edition of the Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed. (Calmet). Psalm 119:5-7,12,35 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! We are inclined and enabled to good by the sanctifying Spirit. Into the place where I shall be safe. David complains of his enemies and distresses. The Spirit of life doth free us from the law of sin and death; but not from the holy, and pure, and good, and righteous law of God. Obedience is superior to knowledge. God is all spirit and all good. 1909-1922. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hcc/psalms-143.html. His teaching is by inward impulses and communications of desire and power to do, as well as of light to know. The passage in its connection warns us of the necessity of being sedulously on our guard against yielding to inordinate passions in any contests we may have with wicked persons, and as we have no sufficient wisdom or power of our own by which to check and restrain these passions, that we should always seek the guidance of God’s Spirit, to keep them in moderation. Knowing His will, having learnt it, we must do it, and do it heartily. It was a practical deficiency--. Into the land of uprightness - "Into a right land," Chaldee. “Teach me to do Thy will.” Self-reliance gives place to self-confidence, and hence the necessity to trust in God and not in self. How practical "Teach me to do"! Commentaries for Psalm Chapter 143 David complains of his enemies and distresses. Verse 10. He sighed for the upland meadows of grace, the table lands of peace, the fertile plains of communion. Think not that we can step one right step to heaven but by the conduct and convoy of God's Holy Spirit. But be that as it may, whosoever wrote the psalm, was a man in extremest misery and peril, and as he says of himself, ‘persecuted,’ ‘overwhelmed,’ ‘desolate.’ The tempest blows him to the Throne of God, and when he is there, what does he ask? All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. Teach me to do thy will. The mysteries of life must quicken us to place ourselves under the guidance of our heavenly Father. "Commentary on Psalms 143:10". He could not reach them of himself ; ( 2 ) they must not be mere feelings of. Personal Information, the supreme desire of the Entire Bible '' these are proofs that he had trouble,... 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