Psalm 139:17-24 How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!… : — I. THOUGHTS OF MERCY. 1. That mercy is free — free as yon arch of heaven above our heads; free as the sunlight that shines upon all and everywhere. 2. That mercy is full. It never asks how many or how black are our sins. 3. That mercy is exhaustless. If I may say so, it has no superlative. Whatever in all the past ages of the Church He has done for any soul He can exceed that. 4. That mercy is ready. 5. That mercy gets glory to itself out of the very sins which it forgives. II. THOUGHTS OF LOVE. He knows our frame. He remembers that we are but dust. He tempers the trial, and brings good out of it. And He is always doing this all our lives through. III. THOUGHTS OF GLORY. To fit us to mingle in the society of heaven is God's purpose — a purpose which He keeps steadily in view in all His providential dealings with us. (A. C. Price.) Parallel Verses KJV: How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!WEB: How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! |
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