5. Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done.
Creation, providence, and redemption teem with wonders as the sea teems with
life. Our special attention is called by this passage to the marvels which
cluster around the cross and flash from it. Wonders of grace beyond all
enumeration take their rise from the cross; adoption, pardon, justification,
and a long chain of godlike miracles of love proceed from it. Note that the
Lord here speaks of the Lord as my God. The man Christ Jesus claimed for
himself and us a covenant relationship with Jehovah. And thy thoughts which are to usward. All the divine thoughts are good and gracious towards his
elect. God’s thoughts of love are very many, very wonderful, very practical!
God’s thoughts of you are many; let not yours be few in return. They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee. Their sum is so great as to forbid alike
analysis and numeration. Human minds fail to measure, or to arrange in order,
the Lord’s ways and thoughts. How sweet to be outdone, overcome and overwhelmed
by the astonishing grace of the Lord our God! If I would declare and speak of them, and surely this should be the occupation of my tongue at all
seasonable opportunities, they are more than can be numbered. The list
is too long for writing, and the value of the mercies too great for estimation.
Yet, if we cannot show forth all the works of the Lord, let us not make this an
excuse for silence; for our Lord, who is in this our best example, often spoke
of the tender thoughts of the great Father.
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