For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
A breath can lay low the healthiest man, and when he dies, the world moves on as though he never was. Yet this terrible frailty points us upward: our flesh is grass, but our souls rise to close fellowship with the Eternal, where our true memorial endures forever.
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Man withers like grass, a breath of wind can snatch his life, and his place knows him no more. But there is one eternal power that lifts those who fear God above nature's ruin: His mercy spans over all who keep His covenant and remember His precepts, blessing them and their children into infinity.
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Commenting on Psalm 103:15-18
David teaches every godly person to thank God first for mercies granted to himself, then for the grace He has given to all His chosen ones through covenant. The Psalmist chiefly magnifies God's mercy in bearing with His people, not because they deserve it, but because He takes pity on their weakness.
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Commenting on Psalm 103:1-22