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I. TAKE SOME GENERAL NOTICE OF THE COMMAND HERE GIVEN. This command, "Put Me in remembrance," by no means supposes that God is unmindful of any promise, or ignorant of any case.

1. It is His pleasure to see a sinner reduced so low as to have nothing to rest upon, nothing to plead but the promise.

2. God will bring the sinner to such a frame as will render the blessing of pardon sweet when it comes.

3. The expression in the text evidences the strict connection which there is between the means and the end. It is grace which appears in the promises, and it is grace which convinces the soul of its need of those blessings that are contained in them. If you are led to see that these promises contain all your salvation and all your desire, and that all is dispensed freely, this will draw out the heart in prayer and supplication. Prayer opens a communication between God and the soul. "I will pardon"; "I will not remember thy sin" — that is the promise. "Put Me in remembrance" is the command. It is the privilege of a sin-burdened soul to remind God of His covenant engagements, to lay the promises of His grace before Him, to plead the merit of the Redeemer's sacrifice, to set the creature's misery and God's mercy in opposition to each other, to compare our poverty with that fulness of grace which the Gospel reveals. Instead of waiting for qualifications in order to obtain mercy, we are to rest the whole weight of our argument upon the grace which shines in the promise, and which will be greatly honoured in the actual pardon of our guilty souls.

II. OBSERVE WHAT IT IS WHICH AN AWAKENED SOUL HATH TO REMIND GOD OF.

1. The soul reminds God of His grace, and argues from the freeness of it.

2. The firmness of His promises.

3. The concern of God's glory in the pardon and salvation of sinners.

III. OPEN THE NATURE OF THE DECLARATION WHICH HE MAKES BEFORE THE THRONE OF MERCY. "Declare thou, that thou mayest be justified." Declaration in law is showing cause why judgment should not be executed. There must be a declaration of an adequate righteousness in order to our justification before God. Our guilt would sink us into the lowest depths of misery if God did not admit our plea through Jesus. We must also declare our hearty approbation of God's method of dispensing these His favours. Inferences —

1. We see the reason why God will have the promises of His grace to be pleaded before the Throne; it is not to help His memory, but to exercise and encourage our faith.

2. How greatly are they to be pitied, who can remember any thing but that which it concerns them above all to attend to.

3. Have any of you pleaded the promises, cried for mercy and grace, and yet seemed to find no help? Be not discouraged, though the Lord wait, yet tarry for Him, He waiteth that He may be more abundantly gracious.

4. Consider what glories are reserved for that future world, when all the promises shall be completely fulfilled.

(J. King, B. A.)

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KJV: Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

WEB: Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth your case, that you may be justified.