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Posted by Psalms on Friday, 12 February 2016
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
123:3. Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us. He hangs upon the word mercy, and embodies it in a vehement prayer: the very word seems to hold him, and he harps upon it. It is well for us to pray about everything, and turn everything into prayer; and especially when we are reminded of a great necessity we should catch at it as a Keynote, and pitch our tune to it. Note that he has left the first person singular for the plural. All the saints need mercy; they all seek it; they shall all have it; therefore we pray, have mercy upon us.
For we are exceedingly filled with contempt, and this is an acid which eats into the soul. Contempt is bitterness; the person who feels it may well cry for mercy to God. Filled with contempt, as if the bitter wine had been poured in till it was up to the brim. This had become the chief thought of their minds, the peculiar sorrow of their hearts. Excluding all other feelings, a sense of scorn monopolized the soul and made it unutterably wretched. Another word is added—exceedingly filled. Filled to running over. A little contempt they could bear, but now they were satiated with it, and weary of it. Nothing is more wounding, embittering, festering than disdain. When our companions make little of us we are far too apt to make little of ourselves and of the consolations prepared for us. Oh to be filled with communion, and then contempt will run off from us, and never be able to fill us with its biting vinegar.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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