the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? Psalms 13:2. Divine answer. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands, thy walls are continually before me. Isaiah 44:15-16. I will not leave you comfortless. John 14:18.
Were all our sins and afflictions so soon to be prayed away with a few words, whence these sad and repeated words of David? Why should God advise us to wait for him and persevere in hope? and how could faith and patience be exercised? In our closets we may be lifted up with high speculations; seem to be strong, and able to leap over all the walls; but in great distress we see how dejected, and as it were despondent our hearts are. Psalms 30:7-8. But the Lord preserve us.
Why do we thus indulge our fears,
Suspicions, and complaints?
Is he a God, and shall his grace
Grow weary of his saints?
Can a kind woman ever forget
The infant of her womb;
And amongst a thousand tender thoughts
Her suckling have no room?
Yet, says the Lord should nature change,
And mothers, monsters prove;
Zion still dwells upon the heart
Of everlasting love.
Deep on the palms of both my hands
I have engraved her name;
My hands shall raise her ruined walls,
And build her broken frame.
