the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Psalms 25:10. Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; blessed be the Lord; for he hath showed me his marvelous kindness. Psalms 31:19-21. He that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Psalms 32:10.
He who experiences the "mercy" of the Lord, can not sufficiently praise it, even as David in all his psalms. Though it often seemed to David that God’s mercy had come to an end, so that he cried, ’’Is His mercy clean gone forever? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? " (Psalms 77:8-9) he yet remembered the works of the Lord, His former wonders upon him and his people; then he could no longer keep from praising the mercy of the Lord and rejoicing in it. The Lord remains forever the same, always the exceedingly merciful One, even when He seems to us otherwise. Do not forget that, beloved. For even though you had experienced His mercy in all its greatness, He will still permit you to get into such outward and inward circumstances that it will be hard for you to believe that He is still merciful; you will at least be strongly, tempted to doubt whether He is still merciful to you. Do as David did: remember the former wonders of His mercy which He has shown to your heart or to other persons. But if you love Him uprightly and intensely, faithfully and constantly, God will often seem to you so merciful that it is hard for you to believe that He really is so merciful; you fear that God’s mercy may prove a disappointment or a delusion, as you are unable to comprehend why He is so merciful and kind to you. The more you humble yourself before Him and regard yourself unworthy of His mercy, the more will He overwhelm you with grace and mercy. Therefore, be humble when He is kind and gracious to you. Be undismayed and confident when He seems ungracious and unkind.
O bless the Lord, my soul!
Nor let His mercies lie
Forgotten in unthankfulness.
And without praises die.
His wondrous works and ways
He made by Moses known;
But sent the world His truth and grace
By His beloved Son.
