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I. A SONG.

1. For all singers. Let young and old, rich and poor, instructed and ignorant, saved and unsaved, take part in it. Let us bless God for the eyes with which we behold the sun, for the health and strength to walk abroad in the sunlight; let us praise Him for the mercies which are new every morning, for the bread we eat; let us bless Him that we are not deprived of our reason, or stretched upon the bed of languishing; let us praise Him that we are not cast out among the hopeless, or confined amongst the guilty; let us thank Him for liberty, for friends; let us praise Him, in fact, for everything which we receive from His bounteous hand, for we deserve little, and yet are most plenteously endowed.

2. But the sweetest and the loudest note in the chorus must always be reserved for those who sing of redeeming love (vers. 10-12). Even now by faith we wave the palm branch and wrap ourselves about with the fair white linen which is to be our everlasting array, and shall we not this day give thanks to the name of the Lord whose redeeming "mercy endureth for ever"?

3. Further on our poet invites the experienced believer to join in the psalm (vers. 16-22). Just as some among us, whose voices are deep, can take the bass parts of the tune, so the educated saint, who has been for years in the ways of the Lord, can throw a force and a weight into the song which no other can contribute.

II. A SOLACE. We have many troubles, and we need comfort; God is willing that we should be comforted.

1. I shall use the text as a solace to the past. The year is all but gone. Have we not found, up till now, that His mercy has endured for ever?

2. Our text is also a very sweet consolation as to the present. Have we at this moment a sense of present sin? Then, "His mercy endureth for ever."

3. As to the future. Ah! we are poor fools when we begin to deal with the future. It is a sea which we are not called upon to navigate. The present is the whole of life, for when we enter into the future, it is the present. When these fingers cannot perform their daily work, when my brow is wrinkled, and I can scarcely totter to my toil, what shall I do?" Ah! "His mercy endureth for ever."

III. A SERMON. "His mercy endureth for ever." Then —

1. Let our mercy endure.

2. Let us learn the duty of hoping for everybody.

3. See the duty of hoping for yourself.

IV. A SUMMONS. "His mercy endureth for ever."

1. Is not that a most loving and tender summons to the wandering child to return to his Father? to the backsliding professor to approach his God? to the chief of sinners to humble himself before the mercy-seat? There is mercy — seek it. There is mercy in Jesus — believe in Him.

2. Believers, the summons is also meant for you. It says this, "His mercy endureth for ever"; therefore let your love to souls continue; let your labour for conversion abide; let your generosity to God's cause abound; let your endeavours to extend the kingdom of Christ endure evermore.

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

WEB: Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.