Psalm :62:12

Psalm 62:12

Unfailing love

In verse 11 we thought about the power that belongs to God. In this final verse of the Psalm, we read that the second of His many great qualities is His unfailing love. It is impossible to grasp the love of God, the Apostle Paul, using some of his most eloquent phrases, tries to explain this in Ephesians 3:17-19. “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” So, Paul uses cubic capacity dimensions to try to describe God’s love. He prays that we might know this love that surpasses knowledge!  And once we do know it, we will be filled with the fulness of God.  What a mystery and what a God, that He should love us in the first place and then fill us with a love so overwhelming and pure, that it is impossible for us to understand or  to contain it! I have tasted that love, have you? Is it not the sweetest, most life-enhancing, breath-taking experience that we can ever have, to taste the love of God? 

David must have experienced it too; he is able to say that this love is unfailing in its abundance. It is chastening to then read that the rewards of God’s power and His love are related to our conduct and that we get what we deserve from Him. This Old Testament teaching goes hand in hand with the New Covenant giving of the Holy Spirit. If we are to experience God’s love and power, then it must be freely and undeservedly given for we cannot earn it and we are all sinful people. But the frequency and abundance of His gift is surely related to the purity and righteous intentions of the receivers? Food for thought!

 

 

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