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Psalms 103:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Here again I cannot tell how much we ought to bless him. It is not merely pardon of a temporary character that is given to us, but our sin is carried right away into a land of forgetfulness, so that it will never come back again to us. “Who shall lay any thing...

Psalms 103:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Oh! what a mercy this is! In the third verse, you see, he gave us the note upon which here, in the twelfth verse, he enlarges: “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities.” How doth he forgive them? Why, “as far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our...

Psalms 103:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. They are gone; they are removed to an infinite distance; they will never come back. It is not possible that they should ever again be laid to our charge.

Psalms 103:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. The best of them need pity. There is something to pity in them; and because the Lord pities them, he will not lay too heavy a burden upon them, he will not demand too much of them, he will not give them over to their enemies. He deals tenderly with them because they are...

Psalms 103:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. Notice that, as this sacred song rises, it gets more tender; if it is not quite so jubilant, the praise is all the deeper, and quite as thrilling. One of the sweetest thoughts that we can have concerning God is that which relates to his fatherly tenderness toward his...

Psalms 103:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. He has an infinitely tender heart, he never strikes without regret, but his love always flows most freely. No earthly father or mother is half so pitiful as God is to his children.

Psalms 103:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. Do not stop the music of thanksgiving; let your hearts, if not your voices, keep on saying, “Bless the Lord! Bless the Lord!” Oh, what pity you and I have needed! What tenderness and compassion! And — Such pity as a father hath Unto his children dear, — such pity has...

Psalms 103:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. He has a tender heart: he never strikes without regret, but his love always flows freely. No father or mother is half so mild and loving as is the Lord of hosts.

Psalms 103:14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. Some people do not remember that, they try to work us as if we were made of iron. But the Lord is very pitiful. He knows that we are nothing but a mass of animated dust, which the wind can soon carry away.

Psalms 103:14-19

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto...

Psalms 103:14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. Our bodies are just animated dust, and our souls are so weak and feeble that even they might be compared to dust in his sight, — not iron or granite, but simply dust. What men call “the laws of nature” are so stern that it is a wonder that men live as long as they do, for earthquakes and...

Psalms 103:14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. He knows that our sickness is but a premonition of that death which will dissolve this mortal frame, which is only kept together by a continuous miracle. It is strange that such a heap of dust as our body is does not dissolve much sooner. That it should return to the dust from whence it...

Psalms 103:14-16

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. As a congregation, we have had most grievous proof of this truth during the last two or three months. It has seemed to...