Alone
“I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top” (Psalm 102:7).
What imagery this verse brings before our minds and hearts. We picture the sparrow huddled alone on the roof, perhaps shivering in the wind and cold, bleak and alone. The sparrow was the bird of lowest worth under the Jewish economy. The Lord said, “Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings?” (Luke 12:6). It brings before us the lowliness and humility of Christ, and the fact that He was “despised and rejected of men” (Isaiah 53:3).
These words of the Lord Jesus, spoken prophetically in Psalm 102, no doubt had their fulfilment at the cross, and perhaps more particularly during those three hours of darkness, when He was forsaken of God, bore our sins, and made atonement for us.
As we think about these aspects of His person and work today, our hearts will be freshly reminded of His love and goodness, and it will produce praise and worship.
