Friday, April 24, 2009

HIS LOVE ENDURES FOR EVER

Psalm 107: 1 – 16


I have to start out by telling the truth. Psalm 107 is one of my favorite psalms. As we know, psalms are songs and prayer written down for us, so we might as well use them as such, I read parts of this psalm every Sunday, at the beginning of worship, as a prayer, because it shows God's love, provision, hope, and salvation.
We all need that love. We all need that salvation. And, provision of our needs and hope are pretty cool to have too.
The opening verse of this psalm says it all.

1 Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures for ever.

How can we not be inspired and filled with awe when we read words like this?
What truth there is in that sentence!
It cannot be denied!
Look at it, God is good.
His love for us endures.
In saying this we see His touch in our lives. He provides what we need in the worst of times.

4 Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.
5 They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.
6 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
7 He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.
8 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men,
9 for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

14 He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains.
15 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men,
16 for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.

By personalizing this psalm we bring it to a closer level where it becomes an intimate conversation with the living God.
What more needs to be said?

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