Friday, February 8, 2008
PSALMthing Invisible Yet Beautiful...

How great is our God? How great is His love? Psalm 36 tells us that the Lord’s love is forever unfailing. In Him we find refuge, in Him we find life.

His love reaches to the heavens, His faithfulness reaches to the skies, and His righteousness is like the mighty mountains, His justice like the great deep. The Lord preserves His creation and He gives them drink from His river of delights. For with Him is the fountain of life and we find life in Him.

In v9, it says that in His light we see light. What does David mean when he says ‘we see light’? By nature itself, light is invisible yet everything is invisible till light strikes it. We need light to see and so it is with God. Though we can’t see Him, but in His light we see and understand His love in all that surrounds us. Look at God’s beautiful creation all around you. Each explicit detail was already decided before everything began. Indeed God is a great artist with a great sense of creativity. Under his loving influence, we come to appreciate the things around us.

Not so the wicked. We see in v1-4 that God’s generosity stands in complete contrast to the vain plotting of the wicked. They have no fear of God in their eyes. They flatter themselves and find neither fault nor sin in them. Their words are wicked and deceitful and it is said that they have ceased to be wise or to do good. They even commit sinful course on their beds and do not reject what is wrong. They do not see God’s light at all, His goodness and unfailing love has been veiled by their sinful acts.

Great is our God. Great is His love. There may be times where you may feel that you nobody loves you. Know that it is just a deception from the evil one, for God will always be there for you. To stand by you, to shower you with His unfailing love. Rejoice for the God’s love reaches to the heavens.

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