DAILY READINGS by Charles Spurgeon
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MORNING: August 17 Meditate a little on this mercy of the Lord. It is tender mercy. With gentle, loving
touch, he heals the broken in heart, and binds 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 favors 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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From Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening.
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