Psalms 40:12. For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Now here is a passage in which the Master is not to be seen but only the servant. This is the man that said than God had put a new song into his mouth. He is a true child of God to whom God had had respect and whose prayer God had heard, yet see what a plight he has come in to. Dear friends, you and I may have to undergo this trial. Happy shall we be if we have such faith in God that even when innumerable evils compass us about we shall remember the innumerable mercies of God, such mercies as the Psalmist had spoken of in the fifth verse. When our iniquities take hold upon us what a mercy it is to think that Christ has taken hold upon us too, and will never let us go. When our sins seem more than the hairs of our head and our heart is failing us, it is very sweet to feel that the depths of eternal love and of atoning merit have drowned even our innumerable sins; they are cast upon the head of him that said "Lo, I come to do thy will;" they are carried away and they have ceased to be, through him whose precious blood and glorious righteousness have made us accepted before God.
Psalms 40:12. For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Now here is a passage in which the Master is not to be seen but only the servant. This is the man that said than God had put a new song into his mouth. He is a true child of God to whom God had had respect and whose prayer God had heard, yet see what a plight he has come in to. Dear friends, you and I may have to undergo this trial. Happy shall we be if we have such faith in God that even when innumerable evils compass us about we shall remember the innumerable mercies of God, such mercies as the Psalmist had spoken of in the fifth verse. When our iniquities take hold upon us what a mercy it is to think that Christ has taken hold upon us too, and will never let us go. When our sins seem more than the hairs of our head and our heart is failing us, it is very sweet to feel that the depths of eternal love and of atoning merit have drowned even our innumerable sins; they are cast upon the head of him that said "Lo, I come to do thy will;" they are carried away and they have ceased to be, through him whose precious blood and glorious righteousness have made us accepted before God.