DEEP CALLS UNTO DEEP

Psalm 42:7
Deep calls unto deep . . .

I would never for a moment attempt to make out the abyss of the fall to be less deep than it is; it is bottomless. The miseries of mankind cannot be exaggerated. Could our tears for ever flow, could we be turned each one into a Jeremiah, yet could we never weep enough for the slain of the daughter of our people. Human misery is deep beyond expression. But what shall I say? How shall I speak? Where shall I find words to express the delight of my soul, that I have such a truth to tell you? There is a deep which answers to the deep of human ruin, and it is the deep of divine grace. There can be no evil in man which the infinite mercy of God cannot overcome. Behold God himself incarnate in the person of the Nazarene! Behold the Son of God spending on earth a life of service and of condescension! Behold him dying a death of ignominy and pain! The atonement of Christ is such a Red Sea that all the Egyptians of a believer’s sins shall be drowned therein. There is such virtue in the redemption offered up by Christ, that it meets the full extent of the guilt which any sinner who seeks him may have incurred. Moreover, to meet the obstinacy and depravity of our hearts, behold how ‘Deep calleth unto deep’! God’s eternal Spirit has condescended to dwell in these hearts of ours. He quickens death into life; he fills the thirsty soul with waters of divine grace; he turns the stone to flesh, and makes the adamant palpitate with tenderness. Blessed be his name; he has done wonders in our souls. He has brought Christ home to our hearts, and made us willing to rejoice in Christ and to be saved by him. Myriads of spirits before the throne attest the fact that the grace of God is deeper than the depths of our sin, higher than the heights of our rebellion, broader and longer than the breadths and lengths of our depravity. O, the exceeding riches of the grace of God! ‘O the depth’ said the apostle Paul; and we may well say the same.

C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 1) (Day One Publications, 1998)
Scripture for opening text taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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