Your steadfast love is great above the heavens
Fri, 16 June, 2006: Today’s Bible readings.
1 My heart is steadfast, O God!
I will sing and make melody with all my being!
2 Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn!
3 I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
4 For your steadfast love is great above the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
In Psalm 108, David tells us he will sing his praise to God in the morning with such gusto that he will wake the dawn! Why does David sing with such energy? What inspires him to praise God? God’s love and faithfulness.
What do we learn from this?
When I read what David write here, I realize what a paltry prayer life I have and how poor I am in my own worship experience. Why don’t I wake the dawn in my praise for God? It certainly isn’t because God’s love and faithfulness has diminished. Obviously, the problem is not that God has changed, but that I do not appreciate who God really is.
The reality of God’s love and faithfulness should bring us to praise Him among the nations. It should lead us to make His love and faithfulness known to the people around us. It should lead us to praise Him with our whole being and to tell others about what He has done.
Where is Christ in this passage?
David tells us that God’s love is great above the heavens. His love is so great that He sent Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, to live the perfect life and to die on the cross to pay the penalty for the ones He loves. That, my friends, is a great love.
