Vol 81 Issue 20

Rev. VanOverloop is pastor of Byron Center Protestant Reformed Church in Byron Center, Michigan. “But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children.” Psalm 103:17 The context in this beautiful and familiar psalm is a vivid description of the frailty of man: “…we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more” (Ps. 103:14-16). The life of every...