R.C. Sproul

Then he goes on to say, for this cause, everyone who is godly shall pray to you in a time that you may be found.

Remember the phrase, seek ye the Lord.

while he may be found.

Call ye upon him when he is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, for he will have mercy upon him and abundantly pardon."

When I was a little boy and I had to go to church on a regular basis, not because I enjoyed it, but because my parents made me go,

One of the things that I was forced to do was to join the children's choir, and they had outfits that made me look like little Lord Fauntleroy, where I had the black hassock and the white surplice and then the stiff white big collar and the great big black bow at my throat, and you can imagine looking a little Lars Eastbrook looking like this angel in the choir loft.

And we had to sing, and occasionally—

we would be joined by the adult choir.

And my favorite anthem as a child, even though I didn't know anything about the things of God, was when we would sing with the adult choir and the lead tenor of the adult choir would sing the solo from that anthem, Seek Ye the Lord.

And I can still hear it.

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found.

Call ye upon him when he is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

And he would go on, and return unto the Lord, and return unto the Lord, for he will have mercy.

And then he would say, he will have mercy.

And then they would go on through the refrain, he will have mercy.

He will have mercy and abundantly pardoned.

That was the refrain that still reverberates in my mind from my childhood.

He will have mercy and abundantly pardon.