Asking More from our Generous God: Psalm 116-Supplication through the Scriptures
Asking More from our Generous God Psalm 116 The Lord hath dealt bountifully with us, for he hath given us his Son, and in him he hath given us all things: he hath sent us his Spirit, and by him he conveys to us all spiritual blessings...let us come back to him who has treated us with such exceeding kindness. Charles Spurgeon Psalm 116 begins, “I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.” He starts with a declaration of love to the Lord in response to the Lord’s answer to his cries for help. The psalmist had been surrounded by the snares of death, distressed and anguished, brought low and greatly afflicted, but the Lord had saved him. Because he had experienced the Lord’s deliverance on his behalf, he said, “therefore I will call on him as long as I live” (Psalm 116:2). His answered prayer worked in his heart to commit to keep coming back to his God. He even saw it as his gift to the Lord. “What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefit...