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Posted by Psalms on Sunday, 31 January 2016
Psalms 136:23
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
136:23. Who remembered us in our low state. Personal mercies awake the sweetest song. Our prayer is, “Lord remember me,” and this is our encouragement—he has remembered us. For the Lord even to think of us is a wealth of mercy. Ours was a sorry estate—an estate of bankruptcy and mendicancy. Israel rested in its heritage, but we were still in bondage, groaning in captivity: the Lord seemed to have forgotten us, and left us in our sorrow; but it was not so for long: he turned again in his compassion, bethinking himself of his afflicted children. Our state was once so low as to be at hell’s mouth; since then it has been low in poverty, sinfully low in faith, and love, and every other grace; and yet the Lord has not forgotten us as a dead thing out of mind, but he has tenderly remembered us still. We thought ourselves too small and too worthless for his memory to burden itself about us, yet he remembered us.
For his mercy endureth for ever. Yes, this is one of the best proofs of the immutability of his mercy, for if he could have changed towards any, it would certainly have been towards us who have brought ourselves low, kept ourselves low, and prepared ourselves to sink yet lower. It is memorable mercy to remember us in our low estate: in our highest joys we will exalt Jehovah’s name, since of this we are sure—he will not now desert us.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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