Compassionate remembrance
Hoeksema's meditative exposition of Psalm 103:14 emphasizes God's tender compassion toward His children, contrasting the Lord's merciful remembrance of human frailty with human cruelty and forgetfulness. The article develops the fatherly love and gracious providence of God as a comfort to believers struggling under the burdens of earthly weakness, encouraging trust in His constant care and sympathetic concern.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. Psalm 103:14 What fervent love and tender compassion glows in this poetic expression of Father's attitude toward His children in the world! "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust." The Lord never forgets the weakness and frailty of our frame. And mindful of our frailty, He is always compassionate and deals with us in delicate...
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