07/03/2025 – Day 347 – Psalm – Chapters 143 – 145 / Charles Spurgeon commentary (link below) / Chapter Titles in order: “A Prayer for Guidance and Deliverance” / “A Mighty Fortress” / “God’s Unsearchable Greatness”
https://www.bibliaplus.org/en/commentaries/9/spurgeon-bible-commentary/psalms/145/1-20
The link is set to the last of the three Psalms in our reading but you can just toggle back from there to get to his commentary on the other two chapters.
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“Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.” Psalm 145:3
John Gill’s commentary on this verse:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/psalms-145-3.html
And finally, let’s look at the last of the three verses that he mentions for support:
“This grace was given to me — the least of all saints!— to proclaim to the Gentiles the incalculable riches of the Messiah, and to shed light for all about the administration of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.” Ephesians 3:8
Finally, I share with you an excerpt from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book: “Psalms – The Prayer Book of the Bible” – Chapter One – “Lord, teach us to pray” covering pages 11 and 12:
“And so we must learn to pray. Children learn to speak because their father speaks to them. The child learns the speech of the father. So we learn to speak to God because God has spoken to us and speaks to us. By means of the speech of the Father in heaven his children learn to speak with him. Repeating God’s own words after him, we begin to pray. We ought to speak to God and he wants to hear us, not in the false and confused speech of our heart, but the clear and pure speech which God has spoken to us in Jesus Christ.
God’s speech in Jesus Christ meets us in the Holy Scripture will have to be the solid basis of our prayer. For here we know that Jesus Christ, the Word of God, teaches us to pray. The words which come from God become, then, the steps on which we find our way to God.”
Soli Deo Gloria!