17. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him. Blessed but! How vast the contrast between the fading flower and
the everlasting God! How wonderful that his mercy should link our frailty with
his eternity, and make us everlasting too! From old eternity the Lord viewed
his people as objects of mercy, and as such chose them to become partakers of
his grace; the doctrine of eternal election is most delightful to those who
have light to see it and love wherewith to accept it. The to everlasting
is equally precious. Never will those who fear Jehovah find that either their
sins or their needs have exhausted the great deep of his grace. The main
question is, “Do we fear him?” If we
are lifting up to heaven the eye of filial fear, the gaze of paternal love is
never removed from us, and it never will be, world without end. And his righteousness unto children’s children. Mercy to those with whom the Lord
makes a covenant is guaranteed by righteousness; it is because he is
just that he never revokes a promise, or fails to fulfill it. Our believing
children and their descendants forever will find the word of the Lord the same;
to them will he display his grace and bless them just as he has blessed us. For
our descendants let us sing as well as pray.
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