Psalm 62:8

Verse 8. Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him. According to our love, so is our faith and trust in God; and according to our trust, such is our freedom at the throne of grace. Trust in him, and pour out your hearts before him; pour them out, like water, in joyful tears. For when the stone in the heart is melted by mercy, the eyes will issue like a fountain of tears. Good men have melting spirits. It is a branch of the covenant and a fruit of the effusion of the Spirit of grace. It is asserted by the learned in chemistry that no menstruums are so powerful as sulphureous and oily liquors to melt down the hardest minerals; to be sure there is nothing like the oil of mercy, so potent a solvent for an iron heart. Samuel Lee.

Verse 8. At all times. I might mention many times in which we might trust in the Lord, but they are comprised in this little word all, and a precious word it is: Trust in him at all times. When you are full of fears, then you shall bring the little word all unto him, and say, I have nothing to encourage me to come to thee but that precious little word all. John Berridge.

Verse 8. Pour out your heart. The word pour plainly signifies that the heart is full of grief, and almost afraid to empty itself before the Lord. What does he say to you? "Come and pour out all your trouble before me." He is never weary with hearing the complaints of his people; therefore you should go and keep nothing back; tell him everything that hurts you, and pour all your complaints into his merciful bosom. That is a precious word: Pour out your heart before him. Make him your counsellor and friend; you cannot please him better than when your hearts rely wholly upon him. You may tell him, if you please, you have been so foolish as to look to this friend and the other for relief, and found none; and you now come to him, who commands you, to pour out your heart before him. John Berridge.

Verse 8. Pour out your heart. Pour it out as water. Not as milk, whose colour remains. Not as wine, whose savour remains. Not as honey, whose taste remains. But as water, of which, when it is poured out, nothing remains. So let sin be poured out of the heart, that no colour of it may remain in external marks, no savour in our words, no taste in our affections. "I will cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord," Isaiah 19:22 . Thus Hugo. But if you fear lest there remain anything in your heart not poured forth, bring the whole heart, and cast it before the eyes of the Lord, and sacrifice it to him, that he may create a new heart in thee. Thomas Le Blanc.

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 8. (first clause). How are we to live by faith on divine providence? T. Lye's Sermon in "Morning Exercises."

Verse 8. (first clause). All trust, from all saints, at all times.

Verse 8. (first clause). Times when this exhortation is most needed. Times of prosperity, of desertion by friends, of calumny, of poverty, of conscious sin, of chastisement, of death.

Verse 8. Pour out your hearts. This teacheth us to deal plainly with God in laying open our hearts before him; and then, no doubt, we shall find ease. Thomas Wilcocks.

Verse 8. (last clause). The peculiar security of the peculiar people.