Posted by Psalms on Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Psalms 144:3
LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
144:3. LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! The psalmist turns from the glorious all-sufficiency of God to the insignificance and nothingness of man. Man is too feeble and too fickle to be relied upon. The psalmist’s wonder is that God should stoop to know him. God knows his people with a tender intimacy, a constant, careful observation: he foreknew them in love, he knows them by care, he will know them in acceptance at last.
Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! The son of man is a weaker being still—so the original word implies. He is not so much man as God made him, but man as his mother bore him. The Lord thinks much of man, and in connection with redeeming love makes a great figure of him: this can be believed, but it cannot be explained. It is meet for us to be humble and to distrust ourselves, but all this should make us the more grateful to the Lord, who knows man better than we do, and yet communes with him, and even dwells in him. If God makes account of man it is not for us to despise our own kind.
Excerpt from:
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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