Psalm 106:4-5 Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that you bore to your people: O visit me with your salvation;… I. THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE SAINTS OF GOD. See this from — 1. The names given them. (1) The people of God. (2) His chosen. (3) His nation. (4) His inheritance.They are the richest treasures, it says, that God possesses; the prized and the loved of His soul; of all things in heaven and earth the most delighted in. 2. What they may be said to possess. (1) The good of His chosen (Proverbs 8:20). All the treasures of God — of Omnipotence — are at their disposal. (2) The gladness of His nation — a portion of the gladness of heaven, vouchsafed to the heirs of heaven before they get there. (3) The glory of His inheritance. II. THE PRAYER DRAWN FROM THE PSALMIST BY THE CONTEMPLATION OF THIS BLESSEDNESS. 1. Here is, first, a belief expressed both in the existence and in the happiness of God's people. This is generally the first step a man takes towards obtaining a part in their blessedness. It is a great point gained when we are brought really to believe that such a people exist on the earth as you have now been hearing of. Here is a proof that light is breaking in upon your minds. And what a call is here, Christian brethren, on you, for a conduct consistent with your high profession! 2. We discover in this prayer a tracing of all the blessedness of God's people to His special "favour" and "His salvation." "Remember me," the psalmist says, "with" — what? "That 'tender mercy' which is 'over all Thy works'? that universal goodness of Thine, which shines in the sun, which falls down in the rain 'on the evil and on the good'?" No; with that "favour," that special favour, "that Thou bearest unto Thy people." "O visit me," he says again, "with Thy salvation." And this special favour and this salvation he asks for, observe, in order that he may obtain and rejoice in "the good of God's chosen": letting us see, that all this "good" and all this "rejoicing" and all this "glory" have their origin and spring out of God's "favour" and God's "salvation." 3. We may trace in this prayer an earnest desire of making the blessedness of God's saints his own. It is, you observe, a personal prayer: "Remember me, O Lord; O visit me with Thy salvation." This is the turning-point. Such a prayer is indeed an indication of favour already gone forth for the soul that offers it. Such a prayer proceeds from grace already at work in the soul. (C. Bradley, M.A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;WEB: Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation, |
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