The LovingKindness of God - Psalm 107

 🎶🎵O that men would praise the Lord

For His goodness and for His wonderful works

 to the children of men🎵🎶

The title of this post is a repeated strain in the 107th Psalm and oh what a wonderful message it relays to us about our glorious God. 

“O That Men Would Praise the Lord” is repeated multiple times in Psalm 107, because it tells the tale of four dire circumstances that humans put themselves in (or finds themselves in) in which God intervened, showed mercy and brought deliverance. And He’s the same God yesterday, today and forever - His lovingkindness is the same.

Lovingkindness is an unusual word: it’s not an adjective used to describe humans, even the nicest ones. It’s one thing to be loving, and it’s another thing to be kind. But the Almighty and Holy God chooses to be described as being “with lovingkindness”. And that’s an amazing fact.

The Psalm is the full message: no postscript required. Please read and be reminded of the lovingkindness of our great and mighty God (Psalm 107:43).

Circumstance 1: The lost and hungry wanderers

“They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; 

They found no city to dwell in. 

Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them. 

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, 

And he delivered them out of their distresses. 

And he led them forth by the right way, 

That they might go to a city of habitation.”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭107‬:‭4‬-‭7‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Circumstance 2: The rebellious yet afflicted prisoners

 “Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, 

Being bound in affliction and iron; 

Because they rebelled against the words of God, 

And contemned the counsel of the Most High: 

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; 

They fell down, and there was none to help. 

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, 

And he saved them out of their distresses. 

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, 

And brake their bands in sunder.”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭107‬:‭10‬-‭14‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Circumstance 3: The tormented sinners

 “Fools because of their transgression, 

And because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; 

And they draw near unto the gates of death. 

Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, 

And he saveth them out of their distresses. 

He sent his word, and healed them, 

And delivered them from their destructions.”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭107‬:‭17‬-‭20‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Circumstance 4: The storm-tossed travellers

“They that go down to the sea in ships, 

That do business in great waters; 

These see the works of the LORD, 

And his wonders in the deep. 

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, 

Which lifteth up the waves thereof. 

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: Their soul is melted because of trouble. 

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end. 

He maketh the storm a calm, 

So that the waves thereof are still. 

Then are they glad because they be quiet; 

So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.”

Psalm‬ ‭107‬:‭23‬-‭30‬ ‭KJV‬‬