Remember the Lord

“A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.” Psalm 38, in the title.

This psalm, as well as the seventieth, is particularly marked in the title, and distinguished from every other; and it will be worth while to seek into the cause. A great light will be thrown upon it, if we connect with this title, the character of the great author, under whose inspiration David, as the penman, wrote it: I mean, that sweet and blessed office of the Holy Ghost, the Remembrancer of the Lord Jesus. “He shall teach you” (saith the Lord Jesus, when describing the blessed Spirit in his offices) “all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you:” John 14:26.

Now, if this psalm be found, on examination, to be speaking much of the person and character of Christ, ought it not, when read under the divine teaching of its Almighty Author, to act as a psalm to bring to remembrance, how Jesus thus suffered, thus groaned, bled, and died for his people? 

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If then the great design of this psalm is to bring to remembrance the Redeemer, in those solemn seasons; shall we make application of the contents of it to David, king of Israel, and overlook David's Lord? Oh! thou great and divine Remembrancer of the Lord Jesus! I beseech thee, thou matchless Instructor! To cause every thing, and every incident, to call my poor forgetful heart to remember its Lord!

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Robert Hawker (1753-1827), The Poor Man’s Morning and Evening Portions, March 8—Evening