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Posted by Psalms on Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Psalms 138:8
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
138:8. The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me. All my interests are safe in Jehovah’s hands. God is concerned in all that concerns his servants. He will see to it that none of their precious things fail of completion.
Thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever. The first clause of the verse is the assurance of faith, and this second one reaches to the full assurance of understanding. God’s work will abide in us to perfection because God’s mercy towards us thus abides.
Forsake not the works of thine own hands. Our confidence encourages us to pray all the more. If there be anything good in us, it is the work of God’s own hands; will he leave it? It would be a sheer waste of effort. He who has gone so far will surely persevere with us to the end. Our hope for the final perseverance of the believer lies in the final perseverance of the believer’s God. If the Lord begins to build, and does not finish, it will not be to his honor. He will have a desire to finish the work of his hands, for he knows what it has cost him already, and he will not throw away a vessel upon which he has expended so much labor and skill. Therefore we praise him with our whole heart, even in the presence of those who set up another God and another Gospel.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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