In Psalms hundred and eighteen, verses one through twenty-nine, the psalm praises the Lord for His everlasting love for His people. It may have been the last words of this song by Jesus and His disciples before He went to the Garden of Gethsemane, where He was arrested and led to His death, as in Matthew twenty-six, verse thirty, and Mark fourteen, verse twenty-six. It was also the song before the return of Christ at the end of the age. However, verse twenty-six of this theme chapter is similar to Matthew twenty-three, verse thirty-nine. When reading this psalm, meditate on what might have been in Christ’s mind when He sang it for the last time.
The theme chapter under The Lord’s Mercy section contains similar verses at the beginning and end of this chapter. “O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth forever,” in verse one. However, the other verse, in twenty-nine, “O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.” Slightly different but mean the same thing. What is the point?
Mercy involves a lot of things, which is a big deal for all humanity. In Ephesians two, verses four and five, “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace ye are saved.” Mercy involves kindness, compassion, forgiveness, generosity, grace, sympathy, and tolerance. The Lord has patiently endured all these things from each one of us. However, many of us would not allow one individual to get away with it and pronounce the guilt on the person.
There is part of a song that goes like this,
Mercy, there was grace, and grace was free,
Pardon, and there was multiply to me,
There, my burdened soul found liberty,
at Calvary.