49 He would deny us nothing!
"Show Your marvelous loving-kindness." Psalms 17:7
He has already shown it—by taking us into the nearest, sweetest, and most profitable relation to Himself!
What love, to call a worm—His dear child!
What love, to call a sinful and polluted worm—His beloved bride!
Loving-kindness, is love in the most attractive form; love acting in the kindest manner; or, love robed in tenderness and benevolence.
To show marvelous loving-kindness, is to bestow distinguished favors, such as reason or custom could not warrant us to expect; favors which only a God of love could bestow! Yet such favors we may ask in faith—and expect!
Beloved, never forget—our God rejoices and He delights to give us good things!
If we were but humble, simple-minded, living in the daily exercise of faith—
We have not—but it is because we ask not, or because we ask in an improper spirit, or with an unfitting design—that we may consume it upon our lusts!