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Posted by Psalms on Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Psalms 130:7
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
130:7. Let Israel hope in the LORD. Or, “Hope thou, Israel, in Jehovah.” Jehovah is Israel’s God; therefore, let Israel hope in him. What one Israelite does he wishes all Israel to do. That man has a just right to exhort others who is himself setting the example. Israel of old waited upon Jehovah and wrestled all the night long, and at last he went his way succored by the Hope of Israel: the like will happen to all his offspring. God has great things in store for his people; they ought to have large expectations.
For with the LORD there is mercy. This is in his very nature, and by the light of nature it may be seen. But we have also the light of grace, and therefore we see still more his mercy. With us there is sin; but hope is ours, because with the Lord is mercy. Let us look out of self and its poverty to Jehovah and his riches of mercy.
And with him is plenteous redemption. He can and will redeem all his people out of their many and great troubles; indeed, their redemption is already wrought out and laid up with him, so that he can at any time give his waiting ones the full benefit thereof. The attribute of mercy, and the fact of redemption, are two most sufficient reasons for hoping in Jehovah; and the fact that there is mercy or deliverance elsewhere should effectually wean the soul from all idolatry. Are not these deep things of God a grand comfort for those who are crying out of the depths? Is it not better to be in the deeps with David, hoping in God’s mercy, than up on the mountainside, boasting in our own fancied righteousness?
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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