the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Psalms 77:9. The mercy of the Lord endureth forever. 2 Chronicles 5:13. Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord. Thy mercy endureth for ever. Psalms 119:156; Psalms 136:26.
However convinced David was that the mercy of God was unbounded and that His grace and "mercy endureth forever," he nevertheless often fell into such moods that it seemed to him that God’s mercy had come to an end, and that His grace and mercy had turned away from him. When the Lord leads you, beloved, in like ways when He hides His face from you or shows Himself unkind and angry do not lose courage. The most intimate friends of God have had to experience the same.
Therefore, speak to Him as they did, and express and disclose to Him what your heart feels. If you must say to Him today, "Are Thy tender mercies gone forever? " tomorrow or some other time you will not be able sufficiently to praise His mercy; the Lord will put a new song upon your lips and at length you shall feel constrained to exclaim, "His mercy endureth forever! " If you have once acknowledged and experienced this, then think upon it and hold it fast in faith, even when you do not feel it when you feel the reverse. You believe that the sun shines and continues to shine even when by an eclipse it is covered with a dark veil. Likewise the Lord is always the same, even though He should seven times a day appear different to you. Trust in His word and not in that which presents itself to your senses.
God will have it that we ask,
And it shall be given;
Who pray alway, alway bask
In the grace of heaven.
Ere they plead
Will He heed,
Strengthen, keep, defend them.
And deliverance send them.
