Psalm 36:5

Psalm 36:5

Infinite love

This is a beautiful verse of Scripture and well worth memorising. Imagine yourself on a vast ocean, or atop mountain or in a wilderness place and looking up to the heavens with no light pollution. You are allowed to peer through the clouds and the blue-reflected heavens to the millions of galaxies that lay beyond, the vast expanse of the universe is all around you. The love of the Lord is as great as that; it has no horizons, it has no limits, it reaches to the far-flung corners of our galaxy and way beyond. In so doing, everything on earth is embraced by that love, it cannot be escaped, it can be measured, it is the very air that we breathe.

The faithfulness of the Lord is no less extraordinary. The heavens and the skies declare His love and faithfulness. We still know so little about the heavenly worlds, man has only visited the moon and that is on our doorstep. What lies beyond should be chaotic and yet it is anything but. There are stars and suns and planets and comets and innumerable heavenly bodies that fit into some great cosmic pattern, each performing its adopted function in a vast dome of energy and light. That, my friends, tells us all we need to know about the faithfulness of God. It is immeasurable, infinite, beyond discovery and yet intimate and personal too. If we can trust our God with the Universe, we can trust Him with our lives! We are surrounded by His love and faithfulness. Hallelujah! 

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