Charles Spurgeon on Asaph's 73rd Psalm

The other day I posted a blog regarding Asaph's 73rd Psalm, and Charles Spurgeon, in his Treasury of David, came alongside to further illuminate:

Verse 12: “Look! See! Consider! Here is the standing enigma! The crux of Providence! The stumbling-block of faith! Here are the unjust rewarded and indulged, and that not for a day or an hour, but in perpetuity. From their youth up the men, who deserve perdition, revel in prosperity. They deserve to be hung in chains, and chains are hung about their necks; they are worthy to be chased from the world and yet the world becomes all their own. Poor purblind sense cries, Behold this! Wonder, and be amazed, and make this square with providential justice, if you can…both wealth and health are their dowry. No bad debts and bankruptcies weight them down, but robbery and usury pile up their substance. Money runs to money, gold pieces fly in flocks; the rich grow richer, the proud grow prouder. Lord, how is this?”

Verse 13: “Poor Asaph! He questions the value of holiness when its wages are paid in the coin of affliction."

Verse 18: “The Psalmist’s sorrow had culminated, not in the fact that the ungodly prospered, but that God had arranged it so: had it happened by mere chance, he would have wondered, but could not have complained; but how the arranger of all things could so dispense his temporal favours, was the vexatious question. Here, to meet the case, he sees that the divine hand purposely placed these men in prosperous and eminent circumstances, not with the intent to bless them but the very reverse…the same hand which led them up to their Tarpeian rock, hurled them down from it.”

Verse 25: "Thus, then, [The Psalmist] turns away from the glitter which fascinated him to the true gold which was his real treasure. He felt that his God was much better to him than all the wealth, health, honour, and peace, which he had so much envied in the worldling…He bade all things else go, that he might be filled with his God."