Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday November 7, 2018 |
Morning Time: 4:37 AM PST
"Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands." --Isaiah 49:16
No doubt a part of the wonder which is concentrated in the word
"Behold," is excited by the unbelieving lamentation of the preceding
sentence. Zion said, "The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath forgotten me."
How amazed the divine mind seems to be at this wicked unbelief! What can be more
astounding than the unfounded doubts and fears of God's favoured people? The
Lord's loving word of rebuke should make us blush; He cries, "How can I have
forgotten thee, when I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands? How darest
thou doubt my constant remembrance, when the memorial is set upon my very
flesh?" O unbelief, how strange a marvel thou art! We know not which most to
wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His
promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never
faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor,
or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties,
molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the
mirage of the desert. "Behold," is a word intended to excite admiration.
Here, indeed, we have a theme for marvelling. Heaven and earth may well be
astonished that rebels should obtain so great a nearness to the heart of
infinite love as to be written upon the palms of His hands. "I have graven
thee."It does not say, "Thy name." The name is there, but that is not
all: "I have graven thee." See the fulness of this! I have graven thy
person, thine image, thy case, thy circumstances, thy sins, thy temptations, thy
weaknesses, thy wants, thy works; I have graven thee, everything about thee, all
that concerns thee; I have put thee altogether there. Wilt thou ever say again
that thy God hath forsaken thee when He has graven thee upon His own
palms?
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