"Commentary on Psalms 31:15". It is not a bad thing to be afraid of God. He wrote, "My times are in your hand". (J. S. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible. 2. And so of men’s departure from this world: they not only come, but go at God’s bidding. Barnes's Psalms 31:15 Bible Commentary My times are in thy hand - That is, I said this in my trouble; when my friends forsook me, and when my enemies came around me and threatened my life. ), If Caesar could say to the fearful ferryman in a terrible storm, “Be of good cheer, thou carriest Caesar, and therefore canst not miscarry,” how much more may he presume to be safe that hath God in his company. Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. The close of life is not decided by the sharp knife of the fates; but by the hand of love. ], yet God watched over him, and kept him in perfect safety. David was continually exposed to the rage and jealousy of Saul, who repeatedly cast a javelin at him, and hunted him incessantly with armed hosts “like a partridge upon the mountains.” Yet though he was often in the most imminent danger [Note: 1 Samuel 23:26. We shall not die before our time, neither shall we be forgotten and left upon the stage too long. How calmly and confidently may we look on to the future. The psalm is thus associated with … Trust, entire and unwavering confidence in God. have “my destinies”) are under Divine control, so that the machinations of the foe cannot prevail against one whom God intends to deliver. My times are in thy hand] Both the time of my abode on earth and all those various occurrences of that time, all is predetermined by thee; particularly how long I shall suffer, and when I shall be delivered. “Life and time are world's two teachers. [It is foolish as well as impious to distrust God, or to murmur at any of his dispensations. Things will happen which you cannot foresee; but your Lord has foreseen all, and provided for all. That none shall hurt us without his permission—, [As we depend on God for our happiness as well as for our existence, so are both our being and our well-being secured by him. BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. Foreboding and fear should be far from us. Use the scale on the left to tell how often the verses below are googled compared to each other. The way to have this happiness when we die is to make it our aim while we live, to seek God’s mercy in Christ, to submit to His disposal, and to follow His steps, led by His hand, in a holy, serious, humble, uncorrupt way; and, as all our times are in the Lord’s hand, to bless the Lord at all times. Nevertheless, the Christian believes. The God in whose hands our times are holds the times of all other human beings, holds all agencies, directs all events according to the counsel of His will, and we shall be successful only when we place ourselves directly in harmony with His laws. Whoever admits the Being of a God, must connect with it the idea of infinity. If we are not fit to regulate our temporal affairs till we attain the age of manhood, how much less can we ever be competent to take the reins of God’s government into our own hands, and to order the affairs of his kingdom? ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. ], [There is no period of life when we can call one day, or one hour, our own. Not that strength of constitution is always allowed to be the measure of life. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. No degree of attention, or variety of objects, can bewilder Him, whose understanding is infinite. Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae. See Psalm 31:15 with its adjacent verses in bold below. Deny it, and you take away the ground of my trust and resignation. And while we live, we are dying. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/psalms-31.html. It allays all his anxiety about his “times.” Fears about ourselves, fears about friends whom we love better than ourselves, apprehensions about life, apprehensions about death--about death perhaps most of all, with its when and where and how,--every one of them would be gone from these hearts of ours, if only they held within them the plain fact of our text as firmly as they hold many a fact that has a thousand times less of deep personal interest for us. (30:1) A(30:2) 30:2 I praise you, LORD, for you raised me up and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". ],” and have an especial charge to “keep us in all our ways, that we dash not our foot against a stone [Note: Psalms 91:11-12. In a general sense, every man’s “times” are in God’s “hand.” It is a happy thing, and it certifies the stability of the wide realm of being, that the great Ruler will not suffer one thread of His government to pass for a moment out of His grasp. "Commentary on Psalms 31:15". Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me. The prayer of a believer in time of deep distress. 7. speaking arrogantly, Ps. are wholly in thy power, to dispose and order as thou seest fit, and not at all in mine enemies’ power, who can do nothing against me, unless it be given them from above. Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies - That is, since all these things are under thy control; since thou hast power over my life and over all that pertains to me, I pray that thy power may be exerted in my behalf, and that my life may be rescued from danger. their instinctive ferocity, or overruling the exercise of it, for the preservation [Note: Jonah 1:17.] Times when I am specially called to work. Rescue me from those who hunt me down relentlessly." The word causes us to reflect upon the instability and changeableness of life. Psalm 31 Meaning Confidence (14-15a) But just at that point – after cataloging the reasons for his fear and anxiety – that’s when David renews his expressions of confidence in the Lord in verse 14 and the first part of verse 15. Compare on "my times," 1 Chronicles 29:30; Daniel 2:21. 2. Anticipation. Leifchild.). Remember that, if you liken Providence to a wheel, it must be a wheel which is full of eyes. “His angels encamp round about us [Note: Psalms 34:7. Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. Give your conscience a holiday, and you can soon get out of your trouble.” Let your reply be, “O prince of darkness, it is no business of mine to extricate myself! “Nor can any weapon that is formed against us, prosper [Note: Isaiah 54:17. 1832. 4. Christ, the great representative man, continually realized the sense of his times, with all their trials and their comforts, being absolutely at the disposal of God, who can, at His sovereign and all-wise will, in a moment change, joy into sorrow, or sorrow into joy. My times are in thy hand,.... And not in the hand of his enemies; as his time of life and death, which was only by the direction and appointment of God, was in his power, and fixed by him; nor could his enemies take away his life before his time, and without the will of his covenant God: the time of his coming to the throne, and what was gone over him during his reign hitherto, 1 Chronicles 29:30; and all his times of trouble in it; times of prosperity and of adversity; of darkness, desertion, and temptation; and of joy, peace, and comfort; these were all in the hands of the Lord, at his disposal, and ordered by him for the good of his servant, and for the glory of his own name; and this was a quieting consideration to the psalmist under his present trials and exercises; the Targum is, "the times of my redemption". “The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.” We dare not leave out the least event. “My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.”. (30:2) They believe that God has formed a number of self-acting machines. The happiness of feeling assured, when we come to die, that our time of dying is in the Lord’s hand, must be inconceivably great. Would we be made the sport of chance or fortune? In You, O LORD, I put my trust: This psalm of David begins in a similar way to many of his other psalms – with a declaration of trust in God in a time of trouble. The Lord, in effect, says to the believer, “I will take your affairs in hand, and see them through for you.” Will you not at once feel that now it is your joy, your delight, to live to glorify your gracious Lord? "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". A clear conviction that our times are in the hand of God will create within us a sense of the nearness of God. 2. Times of waiting for the Lord--for His own time of giving what is good, and for His own way of doing us good. ].” If we are called to the possession of wealth, or deprived of it by any untoward circumstances, it is “the Lord who gives, and the Lord who taketh it away [Note: Job 1:21. How terrible are the calamities which the psalm portrays; but how beautiful the trust which, in the midst of them all, the psalmist displays. We must all die alone. My times of worldly prosperity. To this the Queen replied, “If you will see to my business, I will see to your business.” With such a royal promise he might willingly let his own business go; for a queen should have it in her power to do more for a subject than he can do for himself. 1865-1868. It is by faith. He devoutly and joyfully recognizes it. deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me; a good man has many enemies, and even his very goodness creates him such; for wicked men are enemies to all that is good; and those are persecuting ones, in one way or other; either by words or deeds; and deliverance out of their hands is by the Lord, who sometimes gives his people rest from adversity, and suffers not the rod of the wicked to continue on them; and therefore it is best to apply to him for it. III. My times are in thy hand—Not only the duration of my life, but my fortunes and vicissitudes, are at thy sovereign disposal. One day David w… We shall be told, perhaps, that the doctrine of a particular Providence represents the Most High, as attentive to insignificant affairs,--gives to the Divine administration the aspect of overwhelming complexity,--and, is inconsistent with the majesty of the Supreme Being. A psalm of David. (3) What a source of comfort it is when we can believe fully that our times are in God's hand! 1. BibliographyWhedon, Daniel. The King James Bible (1611) and Strong's Concordance (1890) with Hebrew and Greek dictionaries are sourced from the BibleForgeDB database (https://github.com/bibleforge) within the BibleForge project (http://bibleforge.com). BibliographyCalvin, John. 31:18. “He determines the bounds of our habitation [Note: Acts 17:26. "Sermon Bible Commentary". This page was last modified on September 15, 2017, at 5:02 AM. II. This was his prayer in the midst of his troubles, and this prayer was heard. The Biblical Illustrator. What that work exactly is He knows who has placed us here. We read of “set times to favour Zion.” Such times are the cordials of life, catches of sunlight upon our spiritual prospect, the wells of water and the palms at which we arrive as we journey through the wilderness. Thousands may fall at our side, and ten thousands at our right hand; but it shall not come nigh us [Note: Psalms 91:5-7. If we feel we are resting upon the bosom of Omnipotence, what can disturb our repose? Without providence, history would be an absurdity, the universe an enigma, and the Deity undeified. And the time of affliction, and the time of death. 31:23-24 As is true so often in the Psalms the last strophe is a warning ; an admonition ; a corporate prayer You are indeed my rock and my fortress; Verses 1-18 are a prayer. 2. 1. V. my dying time is in thy hand. How many things have occurred, of which we had no expectation; some, perhaps, that have succeeded beyond our hopes; many, also, that have befallen us contrary to our wish? "Commentary on Psalms 31:15". A bridge falls, and scores of souls are hurried into eternity, and we cry--“Providence!” But a bridge stands for years, and hundreds pass across in safety, and so far as concerns that bridge, we “turn God out of court.”. 1. ].” “God holdeth our souls in life [Note: Psalms 66:9. 1840-57. A Psalm by David. 4. The doctrine of special providence, covering all the events of our individual lives, was deeply rooted in the Hebrew faith. All in relation to life - its origin - its continuance - its changes - its seasons - childhood, youth, middle age, old age - all was in the hand of God. 3. ];” we may drink poison itself [Note: Mark 16:18. 1832. NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: PSALM 31:23-24 23 O love the Lord, all you His godly ones! My times are in Thine hand: deliver me from the hands of my enemies, and from my persecutors. The first is physical. There are, indeed, other grounds of appeal; but there is no one that is more pure or exalted than this. Have you the notion that fate grinds on like an enormous wheel, ruthlessly crushing everything that lies in its way, not pausing for pity, nor turning aside for mercy? It is His to provide for me: it is mine to walk uprightly, and obey His Word.” But supposing he says, “Well, but you are already in difficulties, and you cannot extricate yourself if you are too precise. We are standing while the generations that rose up by our side are sleeping in the ground. (Psalm 31:15) This means that God decided what would happen to David. It would either dispirit us with visions of terror, or intoxicate us by the disclosure of success. You are dependent, and you try to be trustful: will that set to sleep the vigilance of Him who has all the ordering of your way? Too many of us--alas!--never think of this solemn truth. ]:” and “when he taketh away our breath, we die, and return to the dust [Note: Psalms 104:29. II. I. 15. A full belief in the statement of our text is A cure for present worry. To the leader. 3. That spider’s web changed the destiny of the world, inasmuch as it preserved the life of the man who exercised such immense influence over it. Men should learn to value the times of gracious visitation and use them well, lest God take them away. Good people should be comforted, since their times are in God’s hands. Till He give the command, nothing can force open the door of eternity for us; and when He does, nothing can keep us from entering it. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Go to. The honest man told her Majesty that he would obey her commands; but he begged her to remember that it would involve the ruin of his own trade for him to be absent. Ver. He that rolls his burden upon the Lord will be strong to do or to suffer; and his days shall be as the days of heaven upon the earth. For the expression comp. 1765. ]:” and even then Pilate “could have had no power against him, unless it had been given him from above [Note: John 19:11. It is a cold exposition to restrict the phrase, my times, to the time which he had to live, as if David meant no more than that his time or his days on earth were in God’s hand. We may have wisdom, learning, wealth, power, influence, and yet we have not power to lift for one hour the veil which hides the future from our view. Play Audio: The virtuous woman is an early riser, a go-getter, an ambitious and diligent lady. The affairs of men he more especially controls. "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". 17  Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. He guards the vine of life, and He also protects the clusters which shall be produced thereby. “My times are in your hands.” Psalm 31:15. 2. ].” Even the falling of a hair of our head, trifling as it is, takes not place but by his appointment [Note: Matthew 10:30.]. I. ]:” there are “bounds which he cannot pass [Note: Job 14:5. Unknown to us as the times to come are, it should be sufficient to our full repose that they are known to God. "Commentary on Psalms 31:15". To God as a wise Ruler, calm submission is due; but it is more than submission that belongs to Him as a merciful Father; it is the spirit of cordial and affectionate consent to His will. And why should any suppose that the control or agency of the Infinite should terminate with the first creating act? Queen Elizabeth wished one of the leading merchants of London to go to Holland to watch her interests there. 1905-1909. My times are in God’s hand. I shall not meddle with my Lord’s business. "Commentary on Psalms 31:15". A poor man cannot afford to keep a conscience: it is an expensive luxury in these days. As “there is a time to be born,--so there is a time to die.” David takes the range of the whole,--and instead of planning for God, or deeming himself at the mercy of his enemies, he said, “My times are in Thy hand.” Thus he met the storm which tried his faith, and the recollection of his so doing was grateful to his feelings, and subservient to communion with his everlasting friend when fresh trials occurred. 24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the Lord. They think it derogatory to His dignity to be constantly interfering with His works. It is told of Mahomet, how, when hard pressed by his pursuers, he took refuge in a cave, which they were about to enter, when they observed a spider’s web spun over the mouth of it, and, therefore, turned away convinced that it could not have been lately entered. Apart from the plans and purposes of God, the entire universe is insignificant: in relation to them every atom is important, for upon any one atom the entire sequence may depend. 15.My times are in thy hand. 2. Shall we continue to despise his patience and forbearance, till he swear in his wrath that our “time shall be no longer [Note: Revelation 10:6. 1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Darby's English Translation 31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors. What abundant cause we have, when we look back on our lives, for this feeling towards God. ], than one of the Lord’s little ones shall perish [Note: Matthew 18:14. Yet many think this. and Vulg. 1. We do not know. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". Complete Concise Chapter Contents. Luke 13:33. Some deny this, and men limit the interference of God to the great and momentous affairs of men. 2. ].”, We are not indeed at liberty to rush needlessly into danger, from an expectation that God will deliver us; (this were to “tempt the Lord our God [Note: Matthew 4:6-7. Let me now ask, how small a proportion of all that has happened could have been foreseen, or foretold by us? We live because it is God's good pleasure that we should still have a work to do and responsibilities to meet. Quotes available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. II. II. The very word “times” supposes change for you; but as there are no changes with God, all is well. Every man has a constitution given him by God which has a certain amount of vital power and no more, which can bear a certain amount of strain and exertion and no more. 31:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy a righteousness. In whose hands could the disposal of all events be placed so much to our advantage, as in his, who possesses infinite wisdom to devise what is best, and infinite power to effect it? A full conviction that our times are in his hand will be a reason for consecrated service. The word “times” refers to the uncontrollable changes of life. Follow the buttons in the right-hand column for detailed definitions and verses that use the same root words. Feeling that God has placed us in this age that we may make our impress on it, we should prepare ourselves faithfully for doing its work. Events happen not to men by a fortune which has no order or purpose in it. If life be as a field, the field is under the hand of the great Husbandman, and the harvest of that field is with Him also. “My times are in Thy hand” reveals the condescension of the Lord. It is said that the devil hath “the power of death.” But this cannot mean natural death, for had he power over that, he would never suffer a bad man to live till he was converted, nor a good man afterwards. He has foreknown and arranged everything. ), The Divine superintendency of human affairs. Are not times of weakening my strength in the way, of exanimating sickness, of excruciating pain, of wasting lungs, of struggling breath, of loss of appetite, of bodily and mental prostration, so many dying times to every one that is subject to them? (James Parsons. For though every one may do much to preserve his health, that does not depend entirely on himself, any more than that of his family and friends; his good name is not in his own keeping; his credit is not in his own power; business does not come at his bidding. 2. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/psalms-31.html. or forget [Note: Daniel 6:22.] Psalm 31 - For the director of music. Contentment. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/psalms-31.html. And not in the hand of his enemies; as his time of life and death. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. “My times are in Thy hand.” What then? But as long as all things proceed in their ordinary course; when day returns after day with perfect similarity; when our life seems stationary, and nothing occurs to warn us of any approaching change, the religious sentiments of dependence are apt to be forgotten. I. our times are not naturally our own, to employ as we please, to be accountable to ourselves only for the use of them. (J. The time of my life, how long I shall live. But our ignorance does not disprove the fact he knows who has made us, who has placed us here on our trial, who removes us when we have passed it or have failed. Without this, the prosperous man is like a vessel in full sail before the wind without ballast, in danger of being dashed to pieces. 1905. If our times are in God’s hand, here is a grand argument for future blessedness. 1874-1909. times. This is nothing short of saying that God begins to work only at the point where human intellectual vision ceases; that the sphere of providence touches only the horizon of our mental view. A psalm of David. But then we are speaking, not of what the human mind can grasp, but of what the Supreme intelligence effects. It is not possible, neither is it desirable. The import of his language is, Lord, it is thy prerogative, and thou alone hast the power, to dispose of both my life and my death. Lessons: 3. 15. Satan could not touch the person or the property of Job, till he had obtained leave of God to do so [Note: Job 1:12; Job 2:6.]. Or rather. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. He will not indeed screen you from all trials; because it is on many accounts necessary that you should feel them [Note: 1 Peter 1:6. "Commentary on Psalms 31:15". But unexpectedly we have a “windfall”;--reaping where and what we have never sown--and we call the windfall “a providence.” What comes in the ordinary course of things is no providence; so we poor, morally illogical creatures say; but whatever takes place that we cannot account for, we call a providential dispensation. He would “live” as long as God should please. 1. Popularity rankings are based on search volume data from the Google AdWords Keyword Planner tool. [28]Psalm 30 (): P(30:1) 30:1 A psalm. BibliographyTrapp, John. "Commentary on Psalms 31:15". (G. This is as clear as it is certain. There are three main causes which go to determine the length of time of every human life. Consider those seasons which are to be especially regarded as under the Divine management. It is not less so in regard to His dispensations towards us, as we are His redeemed people, children of grace. Psalms 31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. Psalm 31 Meaning When did David say in the prayer, and confidence of faith, “My times are in thy hand?”--it was when fear was on every side, and in so doing, he took an extended view of the providence of God, and honoured Him. 4. Our wisdom is, to be prepared for whatever the year is to bring; prepared to receive comforts with thankfulness, troubles with fortitude; and to improve both for the great purposes of virtue and eternal life. 2. ]: the skill of physicians, however useful when attended with his blessing, is of no avail [Note: Mark 5:26.]. 3. Thus we also are immortal, till our work is done. 1. We may think we control our times, but we don’t. all is a blank to our view. (15) My times are in thy hand—i.e., the vicissitudes of human life (LXX. ב בְּךָ-יְהוָה חָסִיתִי, אַל-אֵבוֹשָׁה לְעוֹלָם; בְּצִדְקָתְךָ פַלְּטֵנִי. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tcc/psalms-31.html. א לַמְנַצֵּחַ, מִזְמוֹר לְדָוִד. These periods form our day of grace, Thus we read of the Church of Thyatira, that Christ gave her “space to repent,” and we read of “a time when Thou mayest be found,” and of the “time of visitation.” In addition to these there are sermons of refreshment for the Church at large. And. Or would we have our present and everlasting concerns left wholly to our own management? 2. A. Many sought to apprehend our Lord; but “they could not lay hands on him till his hour was come [Note: John 7:30; John 8:20. He that has brought us so far, and wrought so graciously for us, will see us safely over the rest of the road. The mystery of life is all about timing and it is the wisest counselor of all. If God thus encircles us by the agencies of His providential power and grace, then (1) we ought to feel our dependence on God, not on man, not on the best-laid plans. The meaning is, that all that pertained to him was under the control and at the disposal of God. The tendency of this age is to get further and further from God. We shall live as long as God has appointed; we shall pass through such changes as he directs; we shall die when and where and how he chooses. On this he founds his prayer, that God would preserve and deliver him from the hand of his enemies. It is not a statement merely; it is a self-gratulation also, with something of a thanksgiving besides. (9-18) Praise for God's goodness. Our times are in God's hand as to the opportunities enjoyed both for personal improvement and for conferring benefit upon others. 1999. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Psalms 31:15". 1801-1803. Psalms 31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 1. The mystery of life is all about timing and it is the wisest counselor of all. Douay Rheims Bible 31:15 My lots are in thy hands. It is in Proverbs 31:25 that we hear the well known phrase "she is clothed with strength and dignity". In you, O L ord, I seek refuge; do not let me ever be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me. My times are in thy hand - That is, I said this in my trouble; when my friends forsook me, and when my enemies came around me and threatened my life. To get what Psalm 31:15 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context  and relative popularity. 1599-1645. deliver … hand — opposed to “shut me up,” etc., of Psalm 31:8. David, in the psalm before us, complains that there were many who “took counsel together against him, and devised to take away his life.” But he comforted himself in the reflection, that, however man might be his enemy, God was “his God;” and that however bitterly his enemies might be enraged against him, “his times were not in their hands, but in God’s;” and, consequently, that they could do nothing against him but by His permission. She is not in love with her bed, the snooze button on Sometimes we recognize God only when what we call large takes place. Wonder of wonders, that God should not only think of me, but should make my concerns His concerns, and take my matters into His hand! Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/psalms-31.html. In your righteousness deliver me; Psalm 31:1 In Hebrew texts 31:1-24 is numbered 31:2-25. ].” “There is neither good nor evil in the city, but the Lord is the doer of it [Note: Amos 3:6. 1. 2. this truth is a complete answer to many a temptation. 2. That scene is now closed. "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/sbc/psalms-31.html. Times are in your hand, deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors Psalm 30 - 115 so friends as we hear the word and we connect with the words we see that the psalmist is continuing to seek God's assistance that he calls on the Lord that is his rock his place of refuge, the one who provides strength and the one who is looking out for himself a power greater than. So numerous are the occasions of death, that no caution can possibly avoid them: “a man may flee from a lion, and a bear meet him; or he may go into a house for safety, and a serpent bite him [Note: Amos 5:19. In the sanctuary, the family, the closet. As a supreme, irresistible Ruler. Life and death, prosperity and adversity, health and sickness, joy and trouble, lie in one undistinguishable mass, where our eye can descry nothing through the obscurity that wraps them up. But, however this may be, with each of us a day comes when the work we had to do has been done or ought to have been done, and can be no longer done, and then the end comes. Closely related to this cause, and yet distinct from it, there is a third. ]?” Are we not told, that “the wrath of man shall praise him; and that the remainder of it he shall restrain [Note: Psalms 76:10. We are comforted to have it so. IV. Even that ignorance of our future destiny in life, of which we sometimes complain, is a signal proof of His goodness. Your position brings with it many wants. PSALM 31:1-5. 1. II. ]: nothing in the whole universe can “harm us, if we be followers of that which is good [Note: 1 Peter 3:13. Psalm 31:15, NLT: "My future is in your hands. Certainly not the times of personal and relative affliction and distress the ground of my enemies and from that... 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