Psalm 107

107     Thanksgiving (community)

Praise God for Answering My Cry

            13 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble;

            He saved them out of their distresses.

·         Though God is not bound by covenant to hear prayers not offered in faith, yet he has never said that he would not hear the cry of distress. He has many a time heard the call of wretchedness, even when misery was the fruit of guilt.

·         Sinners are fools. There is a marvelous infatuation in all wrong-doing. “Sin blindeth sinners, and bereaveth them of the right use of their reason, and maketh them choose trifles, with the loss of what should be most precious.” (Dickson)

·         God’s blessing makes rich, and adds no sorrow. God’s anger makes poor and strips us of comfort.

·         Blessed be God, he pursueth not his creatures that he may destroy them, but that he may humble them.