The passage I read was Psalm 36:5-12
You can find that passage here:
My summary of the passage is this:
God is faithful to fulfill the promises of his mercy which
hath no end. This passage is an
edification of God. The author is
lifting up the name of the Lord and speaking of His love, kindness,
righteousness, judgments, mercy, and light.
As I reflect:
The very first 2 verses say,
5 Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
your faithfulness to the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
This immediately brought a song to mind. “Your Love Oh Lord” by Third Day.
You can listen to that song here if you are
unfamiliar:
the lyrics read,
“Your love, oh Lord
Reaches to the heavens
Your faithfulness stretches to the sky
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains
Your justice flows like the ocean's tide
I will lift my voice
To worship You, my King
I will find my strength
In the shadow of your wings”
Reaches to the heavens
Your faithfulness stretches to the sky
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains
Your justice flows like the ocean's tide
I will lift my voice
To worship You, my King
I will find my strength
In the shadow of your wings”
No doubt in my mind that this passage is where they got the
inspiration for that song. I love when I
come across lyrics to a song I know in the Bible. That just makes my day.
Anyhow, back to reflecting (now listening to the song).
These are such simple words and yet I never would have on my
own come to write them down. I think the
closest I’ve ever come is when I tell the Lord allowed, “thank you for blessing
me Lord. I am sooo undeserving. I am thankful that you keep blessing me,
though I have not an understanding of the love you must have for a wretch like
me to continue blessing even when I fail you.”
That’s almost a daily thing now.
I have to at some point (sometimes more than once) stop and thank my God
for blessing so richly a man and family so undeserving of such grace. That He chooses to lead me to His wings
protection despite my offenses is a beauty this earth has nothing to compete
with.
My response to the Lord:
Your love Lord, is everywhere in my life and I am not blind
to how very often you are faithful to me, though I find myself unfaithful in my
flesh. It is because you are so truly
righteous that I fear your justice at times Father. But I have nothing to fear for your unfailing
love provided that my debt be paid for me due to my inability to pay the price
myself. This is something that is far
beyond our poor power to fully grasp; that your love would not only allow for
forgiveness, but that you would take in those that are responsible for your
sons torture and death by way of sin against you….I am without words when I
think that you not only are not going to destroy me for that, but that you love
me enough to invite me to take refuge under your wing. The Lord has provided all that I need and soo
much more. Perhaps had I heard of the
life that you give to your children, I wouldn’t have believed it. But that I am blinded by it daily in my own
life, makes it impossible to deny. Lord
keep my heart upright though my flesh fail, that I may stay in your light and
love. I ask the same of your other
children; my brothers and sisters. May
none of us become so so self centered or arrogant to stand against you, nor so
blind or easily led that we should fallow your enemies. Let them not stand against us Father. In Jesus Name
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