WHO REMEMBERED US IN OUR LOW ESTATE

EVENING DEVOTION 

OCTOBER 27

 

Psalm 136:23

Who remembered us in our low estate:

 for his mercy endureth for ever. 

 
Our state by nature was truly a low estate.
 
We had no liberty, being the slaves of Satan; 

  no ability, being dead in trespasses and sins;

  no honour, being allied only to traitors and rebels; 

  no real pleasure, being tossed about by desires and disappointments; 

  no prospects, except eternal woe; 

  no profitable employment, for the fruit of our toil was death.
 
Our nature was fearfully depraved; our condition truly deplorable; 

  and our destiny most alarming.
 
But in this state, the Lord remembered us; and

 it was with reference to it that he made his covenant; 

  send his Son; promised his Holy Spirit;

   prepared and gave us his Gospel; 

    employed his wise and holy providence; 

    exerted his divine power on our behalf, 

     opened the storehouse of heaven for us; and 

       raised us up to know, love, and realize union to Jesus.
 
And he did this of mere mercy, and because his mercy endureth forever.
 
Mercy fixes on her objects and continues to regard them with peculiar concern.
 
Mercy wrote our name in the book of life; 

  gave us the promises of the everlasting gospel; 

  pleads for us before the throne above; and 

  visits us often to cheer, rescue, and bless.
 

All-gracious God, thy pitying eye,

View’d the low state in which we lie;

And as an act of sovereign grace,

Sent salvation to our race.

 
James Smith