Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 132:1

1. The Lord remembers Jesus, our David: he loves him, he delights in him, he is with him.

2. In that memory his griefs have a prominent place —"all his afflictions."

3. Yet the Lord would be put in remembrance by his people.

Verses 1-2. Concerning his people,

1. The Lord remembers, a) Their persons. b) Their afflictions. c) Their vows.

2. The Lord remembers them, a) To accept them. b) To sympathize with them. c) To assist them.

Verses 1-2.

1. God remembers his people, each one: "Remember David." The Spirit maketh intercession within us according to the will of God.

2. He remembers their afflictions: "David and all his afflictions." "I know thy works and thy tribulation."

3. He remembers their vows, especially, a) Those which relate to his service. b) Those which are solemnly made. c) Those which are faithfully performed. —G. R.

Verses 1-5. Notice,

1. How painfully David felt what he conceived to be a dishonouring of God, which he thought he might be able to remedy. Consider "his afflictions", —because the ark dwelt within curtains, while he himself dwelt in a house of cedar: 2Sa 7:2.

2. Consider, a) Its singularity. Most find affliction in personal losses; very few suffer from a cause like this. b) The little sympathy such a feeling meets with from the most of men. "If God means to convert the heathen, he can do it without you, young man", was said to Dr., then Mr. Carey, when heathenism was an affliction to him. c) Its fittingness to a really God fearing man. d) Its pleasingness to God: 1Sa 2:30.

2. How earnestly he set himself to remedy the evil he deplored: "He sware", etc. There cannot be the least doubt that he would have foregone the enjoyment of temporal luxuries until he had accomplished the work dear to his heart, if he had been permitted of God. Remark, a) There is little zeal for God's honour when self denial is not exercised for the sake of his cause. b) Were a like zeal generally shown by God's people, there would be more givers and more liberal gifts; more workers, and the work more heartily and better done. c) It would be well to astonish the world, and deserve the commendations of the righteous by becoming enthusiasts for the honour of God. —J. F.

Verses 3-5.

1. We should desire a habitation for God more than for ourselves. God should have the best of everything. "See, now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains."

2. We should be guided by the house of God in seeking a house for ourselves: "Surely I will not come", etc.

3. We should labour for the prosperity of God's house even more than of our own. Nothing should make sleep more sweet to us than when the church of God prospers; nothing keep us more awake than when it declines: "I will not give sleep", etc. (Ps 132:4); "Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?" —G. R.