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Friday... Over and over they write.


Psalm 117:2 (NLT) says, "For his unfailing love is powerful; the Lord's faithfulness endures forever. Praise the Lord." 

Friday... Over and over they write.

I have read the Psalms for nearly 50 years and these two descriptions are written about our Lord, our God over and over. Psalm 117 is the shortest chapter in the Psalms and even in the whole Bible and these two descriptions are highlighted here in this chapter. It must mean that God wants us to be reinforced in these two characteristics, these descriptions, these facts about him. And we are to praise the Lord. They are so important.


They are unfailing love and faithfulness. Now they really do go together, unfailing love and faithfulness go together. If I really love my spouse then I will be faithful. God has shown us by living out those facts.

Now the description is that unfailing love is powerful. Everything that happens to those who follow him must go through that unfailing love and it is so powerful that no matter what it is we are going through we have the power to make it through.

The Amplified Bible says it a little differently. It says, "For His lovingkindness prevails over us [and we triumph and overcome through Him and the truth of the Lord endures forever." And forever is a long time. And whatever you are going through right now is a part of forever.

This fact is what all other facts about God are built upon. He created us out of deep love. His Son, Jesus came to earth and died for us to show how much God loves us. 

We sometime think that in our marriage love is a romantic emotion but in reality, love is a commitment. Margaret and I will be celebrating 50 years of marriage. It has not happened because of an emotion, though I have such deep emotion for my wife, it has happened because of commitment. The difficult days are not taken care of by emotion. In fact there are emotions that can break us apart because neither one of us is perfect and that is where the love is a commitment comes in.

Yes, I do believe that God has an emotion about us but his love is more than that. His love is a deep unfailing commitment to us. Now reaping the benefit of his love toward us also must have a commitment from us so those two characteristics of God are important for us to be. We need God living in and through us so we will have his love and faithfulness living in and through us. 

Now the whole chapter of Psalm 117 says, "Praise the Lord, all you nations. Praise him, all you people of the earth. For his unfailing love for us is powerful; the Lord's faithfulness endures forever, Praise the Lord!" Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 


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