The multitude of Your tender mercies',

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"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your 
loving-kindness—according unto the multitude of
Your tender mercies blot out my transgressions." 
Psalm 51:1

What a sweet expression it is—and how it seems 
to convey to our mind that God's mercies do not 
fall 'drop by drop'—but are as innumerable . . ..
as the sand upon the sea-shore;
as the stars that stud the midnight sky;
as the drops of rain that fill the clouds before 
they discharge their copious showers upon the earth. 

It is the multitude of His mercies that makes Him so 
merciful a God. He does not give but a drop or two of 
mercy—that would soon be gone, like the rain which 
fell this morning under the hot sun. But His mercies 
flow like a river! There is in Him . . .
a multitude of mercies, 
for a multitude of sins,
and a multitude of sinners! 

This felt and received in the love of it—breaks, humbles, 
softens, and melts a sensible sinner's heart—and he says, 
"What, sin against such mercies? What, when the Lord has 
remembered me in my low estate, and manifested once
more a sense of His mercy? What, shall I go on to provoke
Him again—walk inconsistently again—be entangled in
Satan's snares again? O, forbid it God, forbid it gospel, 
forbid it tender conscience, forbid it every constraint of 
dying love!"

"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your 
loving-kindness—according unto the multitude of
Your tender mercies blot out my transgressions." 
Psalm 51:1

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