"I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us." — Isaiah 63:7
Remember God’s Faithfulness
And can you not do this? Are there no mercies you have experienced? What! Though you are gloomy now, can you forget that blessed hour when Jesus met you and said, “Come unto me”? Can you not remember that rapturous moment when He snapped your fetters, dashed your chains to the ground, and declared, “I came to break your bonds and set you free”?
And if the love of your early days with Him has grown dim, surely there must be some precious milestone along the road of life—not entirely hidden by the moss of time—on which you can still read a joyful memorial of His mercy toward you. What! Have you never endured a sickness like the one you are suffering now, and did He not restore you? Were you never poor before, and did He not supply your needs? Were you never in trouble before, and did He not deliver you?
Find Strength in Your Memories of Grace
Arise! Go to the river of your experience and pull up a few bulrushes. Weave them into an ark, wherein your infant faith may float safely upon the stream. Forget not what your God has done for you! Turn over the book of your remembrance and think upon the days of old. Can you not recall the hill Mizar? Did the Lord never meet with you at Hermon? Have you never climbed the Delectable Mountains? Has He never helped you in your hour of need? No—I know He has!
Yet go back, just a little way, to yesterday’s choice mercies, and though all may be dark now, light up the lamps of the past. Let them glitter through the darkness, and you shall trust in the Lord until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.
“Remember, O Lord, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses, for they have been ever of old.”