Psalm 138:8 The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of your own hands. I. THE BELIEVER'S CONFIDENCE. 1. A Divine confidence — "The Lord." 2. A confidence for the future — "will." 3. A large confidence — "perfect." 4. A broad confidence. "Whatever concerns me," says he, "the Lord will perfect." II. THE GROUND OF THIS CONFIDENCE — GOD'S MERCY. Is it not a strange thing that the advanced believer, when he reaches to the very height of piety, just comes to the spot where he commenced? Do we not begin at the Cross, and when we have climbed ever so high, is it not at the Cross that we end? Mercy must be the theme of our song here; and mercy enduring for ever must be the subject of the sonnets of paradise. None other can be fit sinners; nay, and none other can be fit, grateful saints. III. THE RESULT OF THIS CONFIDENCE. It leads to prayer. (J. H. Evans, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. |
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