A Song of Triumph

J. A. Spurgeon.

Psalm 87:7

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in you.

I. THE CHRISTIAN REQUIRES DIVERS KINDS OF BLESSINGS, AND THESE ARE ALL FURNISHED FOR HIM. Not one rill of supply merely, but many springs.

1. We will speak first of that spring which may be called sanctification, which washes us from daily accumulating evil, and checks our own depravity — which makes us more holy, and more fit to become partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

2. Sustaining grace.

3. Wisdom to direct.

4. Strength and assistance in every time of need.

5. Joy and comfort.

II. WHERE ARE THESE SPRINGS TO BE FOUND? In Jesus our Lord and our God. It is of the Father's grace that the Spirit gives us from Jesus' fulness, so that we can never faint or fail. The wisdom of this arrangement will be evident if we consider —

1. Our own folly.

2. Our weakness.

3. Our great ingratitude and forgetfulness of God.

4. Our tendency to pride.

5. We admire this plan because it exalts God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. It makes us to come often into their presence to acknowledge our need and to extol God as alone able to supply it.

(J. A. Spurgeon.).