Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 124:7

As a bird out of the snare of the fowlers. The soul is surrounded by many dangers.

1. It is ensnared by worldliness. One of the most gigantic dangers against which God's people have specially to guard —an enemy to all spirituality of thought and feeling.

2. It is ensnared by selfishness —a foe to all simple-hearted charity, to all expansive generosity and Christian philanthropy.

3. It is ensnared by unbelief —the enemy of prayer, of ingenuous confidence, of all personal Christian effort. These are not imaginary dangers. We meet them in everyday life. They threaten us at every point, and often have we to lament over the havoc they make in our hearts. —George Barlow, in a "Homiletic Commentary on the Book of Psalms," 1879.