Psalm 36- October 10th, 2010
The Fountain of the Lord’s Love:
Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens. Your faithfulness to the skies.
Your love is so great Lord. And in all my life I have found no other love that can compare to yours, or who can fully satisfy the desires of my heart. It burns me when I cannot feel your love. Why does that happen, because you never stop loving me, and does it matter that I can’t feel it. Isn’t it in times like this in which it begins to become more about trusting that you love me? It is having faith in your love. You love me no matter what and that will not and cannot change.
What about when you say, or rather, when it says in your word. Jacob I loved, but Essau I hated. Did you really hate him?
I hated what he stood for. He scoffed at my blessing and poured out what I had called him to. I would have given him everything if he had stepped up and reached for what mattered. Instead it went to Jacob, a man who was intent on pursuing the things that matter. At first it was about what he could get from me. He wanted my blessings because he knew that I was the one that gave them. He wanted my favor, because he knew my favor satisfies. It was not until later in his life that He came to understand me and he sought me over the things that I would give Him. He learned that an encounter with me will change you. You cannot experience me without being changed or, if there is no change, scarred.
There’s an interesting verse before this. It says that a wicked man has no fear of the Lord before his eyes, for in his own eyes he flatters himself so much that he fails to detect or hate his own sin. Is that why pride is such folly. Because no matter how good a man may be he comes to a place where, if he is to proud, he cannot look beyond the man he is into the great part he plays in this world and the next. He cannot see how far he has fallen from the glory that is his. He cannot possibly understand how far he has to go, not because of how imperfect he is, but because of how perfect he can be. How much he can be like the man that God intended him to be. His pride causes him to forfeit his greatest gift, the chance to become glorious.
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