OT: Psalm 130

Reading: 

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Commentary: 

The is a penitential psalm, for "out of the depths have I cried unto Thee O Lord." The psalmist here remembers his sins and mourns them. He is in the depths of despair, which is to wrestle with the thought there is no hope of mercy or forgiveness. "Lord hear my voice", not for the sake of my works, but for the sake of Thy Son, my Lord Jesus Christ, for "there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared." Note here the patient waiting of the soul for the Lord to come and rescue, help and deliver. "I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His Word to I hope." Hope is one part of faith, namely because God has promised us forgiveness, salvation, and everlasting life in His Word, we have a certain hope for a better life to come, with Jesus in heaven. With faith then there is a good and proper longing to be delivered from this evil world entering into the joys of heaven through the blood of Christ. Knowing Christ and His atonement for all our sins, we rejoice, for "with the Lord there is MERCY, and with Him is plenteous redemption." Though our sins stand as a mountain reaching high up into the sky, Christ lives in that sky, that heaven above us, and by the power of His blood we know, "where sins abounds, grace does much more abound." His redemption is indeed PLENTEOUS.