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Psalms 115
Psalm 115:5
The heathen, with his idol gods about him, has challenged the champion of a spiritual religion to show him his God. The answer was simple and complete, though not, we may be sure, convincing to the opponent. It was this: "As for our God, He is in heaven". To have eyes, and yet not see, in body and in spirit, that and some of the several stages of it are the points which I ask you to consider.
I. Let me take first the eyes of the body, and illustrate my meaning, as to their seeing or not seeing, by one or two examples.
(a) You have seen a ray of light caught by a prism by some skilful operator, and thrown on to a surface carefully prepared to receive it. But striking and suggestive and beautiful as what you see Psalm 115:8
St. John of the Cross explains this text as follows: "He who loves the creature, remains as low as that creature, and in a certain sense even lower, because love makes the lover not only equal, but subject to the object of his affection".
References.—CXV.—International Critical Commentary, vol. ii. p392. CXVI:7.—W. P. J. Bingham, Sermons on Easter Subjects, p119. CXVI:9.—J. Baines, Twenty Sermons, p163.
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