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Tag: Land of Canaan

  • Psalm 105

    Psalm 105

    Commonplace –

    “Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance” (Psalm 105:11).

    Matthew Henry had some thoughtful insight regarding this psalm:

    “Some of the psalms of praise are very short, others very long, to teach us that, in our devotions, we should be more observant how our hearts work than how the time passes and neither overstretch ourselves by coveting to be long nor over-stint ourselves by coveting to be short, but either the one or the other as we find in our hearts to pray” (Henry 517).

    In particular, I was struck by God’s promise to the Israelites to give them the land of Canaan, which is found in verse 11. Matthew Henry notes,

    “God’s promise to the patriarch’s, that great promise that he would give to their seed the land of Canaan for an inheritance, which was a type of the promise of eternal life made in Christ to all believers” (Henry 518).

    So, we can receive this promise from God. We, too, have a Canaan promised to us, and all we have to do is receive it.

    Works Cited

    Henry, Matthew. “Psalm 105.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Volume 3, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.

    Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.

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