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Contemplating God’s Love!

Scripture reading for June 24th: Psalms 104-106

One of the attributes of God is that He is good!  God has been good to me and I have personally experienced His goodness for over 67 years!  Today’s psalms reflect on the goodness of God to His people because of who He is.  God and His goodness is the greatest subject that the human mind could contemplate!

God is clothed in splendor and majesty! (Psalm 104:1-2)  He has stretched out the heavens like a tent canopy and decorated the sky with jewels of light.  He is the one who uses the winds as His messengers and the lightening bolts as His servants. (Psalm 104:4)  He set the earth on its foundations and formed it’s surface, covering it with water.  He created the plants, animals, the birds of the air and fish of the sea. (Psalm 104:24-25)  This majestic God is the source of all food, breath, and life! (Psalm 104:33-35)

In Psalm 105 God is worshiped for His faithfulness to His covenant with His people!  (Psalm 105:8-9)  The people of God have been cared for by God’s covenant love, from saving them from famine through Joseph to the deliverance from Egypt through Moses and the miracles wrought through his hands.  God brought the people out of slavery, loaded down with silver and gold.  He fed them and watered them on their journey (Psalm 105:37-41).  This was because of His promises to Abraham and the covenant that God was faithful to keep!  He is worthy of praise!

God’s goodness is without limit and His love is from everlasting to everlasting!  (Psalm 106:1)  God’s love also includes His loving discipline!  Some of the judgments recorded here include the wilderness experience where a generation that would not believe died!  God dealt with unbelief, rebellion, idolatry, grumbling and disobedience!  (Psalm 106: 32-39)  God’s people had a history of unfaithfulness, but God has remained faithful!  Even when He handed them over to the nations, He heard their cry and because of His great love, and He relented! (Psalm 106:44-46)  God deserves praise from everlasting to everlasting!

Take a moment today to remember God and His faithfulness to you personally.  Look back over your life and offer thanks and worship for God’s creation, provision, healing, deliverance and discipline!