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Posted by Psalms on Sunday, 31 January 2016
Psalms 136:5
To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
136:5. To him that by wisdom made the heavens. His goodness appears in creating the upper regions. He set his wisdom to the task of fashioning a firmament, or an atmosphere suitable for a world upon which mortals should dwell. What a mass of wisdom lies hidden in this one creating act! The discoveries of our keenest observers have never searched out all the evidences of design which are crowded together in this work of God’s hands. The lives of plants, animals, and men are dependent upon the fashioning of our heavens: had the skies been other than they are we had not been here to praise God. Divine foresight planned the air and the clouds, with a view to the human race.
For his mercy endureth for ever. The psalmist’s details of mercy begin in the loftiest regions, and gradually descend from the heavens to “our low estate” (verse 23); and this is an ascent, for mercy becomes greater as its objects become less worthy. Mercy is far-reaching, long-enduring, all-encompassing. Nothing is too high for its reach, as nothing is beneath its stoop.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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