It's one of the hardest things to do for someone who likes to teach. Take subject matter that has huge ideas and implications, find the most poignant and applicable idea and just talk about that. It's what makes guys like Andy Stanley, Rob Bell and Mark Driscoll such great communicators. They know how to find the most brilliant, huge diamond among all of the rest of the jewels and then cut it and polish it until it is unmistakable. There is so much to write about each of these psalms and there is so much to think about. Spurgeon said in his prologue that he struggled to hold it to what he wrote and it's over 1300 pages with tiny type face.
Let me just look at one verse in Psalm 9. Verse 10 says "those who know your name will put their trust in you. for you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you."
Really, this is an amazing promise. "let the poor seekers draw comfort from this fact, and let the finders rejoice yet more exceedingly, for what must be the Lord's faithfulness to those who find if he is so gracious to those who seek," spurgeon said of this verse.
In the middle of all the "stuff" that wrestles for our attention, it is hard to seek out God...there's too much noise. Look at the promise, though. If we are truly seeking Him...
Read the psalm and then with the psalmist "joy in His joy, and our joy shall be full" - C.H.Spurgeon
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