Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Friday August 17, 2018 |
Morning Time: 11:12 AM PST
"The mercy of God." --Psalm 52:8
Meditate a little on this mercy of the Lord. It is tender mercy. With
gentle, loving touch, He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their
wounds. He is as gracious in the manner of His mercy as in the matter of it. It
is great mercy. There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like
Himself--it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it
forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then
gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments
in the great heaven of the great God. It is undeserved mercy, as indeed
all true mercy must be, for deserved mercy is only a misnomer for justice. There
was no right on the sinner's part to the kind consideration of the Most High;
had the rebel been doomed at once to eternal fire he would have richly merited
the doom, and if delivered from wrath, sovereign love alone has found a cause,
for there was none in the sinner himself. It is rich mercy. Some things
are great, but have little efficacy in them, but this mercy is a cordial to your
drooping spirits; a golden ointment to your bleeding wounds; a heavenly bandage
to your broken bones; a royal chariot for your weary feet; a bosom of love for
your trembling heart. It is manifold mercy. As Bunyan says, "All the
flowers in God's garden are double." There is no single mercy. You may think you
have but one mercy, but you shall find it to be a whole cluster of mercies. It
is abounding mercy. Millions have received it, yet far from its being
exhausted; it is as fresh, as full, and as free as ever. It is unfailing
mercy. It will never leave thee. If mercy be thy friend, mercy will be with
thee in temptation to keep thee from yielding; with thee in trouble to prevent
thee from sinking; with thee living to be the light and life of thy countenance;
and with thee dying to be the joy of thy soul when earthly comfort is ebbing
fast.
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