Psalm 78:41 says “They limited the Holy One of Israel”. Charles Spurgeon writes in-depth from his 1859 sermon that when God gave forth the law it was engraved on two stones. The first tablet contained the commandments concerning man and God, the second tablet dealt with man and man. But there are three of the ten – from both tablets – that limit God. How? The third is despair, that despite God’s unlimited goodness and mercy, these people feel that they are guilty.

They know that Christ is able to save; and they also understand faith and its power to bring peace, but they continue to assert that there is no mercy for them. They read that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, but they cannot believe He came to save them. They cannot imagine that free grace and sovereign love can ever come to them.

Spurgeon says, “Thou art saying that God cannot save thee, or if not saying that, thou art implying—that all the torture thou hast felt in thy conscience, and all the anxiety thou hast in thy heart, have never yet moved God to look on thee. Why, thou makest God to be the most hard-hearted of all beings?” Dare to believe that He is willing to save you, and that He has put away your sins.

Charles Wesley hymn “And Can It Be?”
And can it be that I should gain
An int’rest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my God, should die for me?