God's Overflowing Love (Psalm 42:6-8)

Today's scripture: Psalm 42:6-8

I have a strong affinity for waterfalls. The sound of the crashing water cascading down to hidden depths is somehow soothing to my soul. I think it's because it drowns out the world's noise. I find myself more in tune with the Lord. Some of my favorite trips have involved searching out waterfalls.

I guess that's why I like verses like Psalm 42:7.

But I love verses like Psalm 42:8.

God loves me! He "command[s] His lovingkindness in the day time" ... He loves me more than I can imagine, and He wants nothing more than me to feel His love flow over me like water over a fall. He wants His love to saturate me and fill me so fully that the sounds of the world are drowned.

I especially love the next part of verse 8: "in the night His song shall be with me ..." You've read that one of my favorite ways to offer praise is through song. But this verse says something very soothing to my soul. God also sings. He sings over me and through me.

Because I of God's love flowing over me and His song with me, I offer a "prayer to the God of my life."

Because He Loves Us (Psalm 8:3-5)

Today's scripture: Psalm 8:3-5

When was the last time you sat and stared at a starlit sky? Marveled at its beauty? Considered the vastness of God’s creation?

It’s pretty humbling, isn’t it?

It’s time like this when the question of the psalmist becomes my question: “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” In other words, “Why do You care about us? What’s so great about sinful, flawed us?”

The main reason? Because He loves us.

God, the Creator of all things, who set each star in its place, who created mountains and seas and deserts … He is mindful of me. He thinks of me. He loves me. Tiny-speck-of-a-person me. And He loves tiny-speck-of-a-person you, too. He has made us just lower than the flawless beings the Bible calls angels. And He honors us as His specially-created children.

Think about how much God loves you the next time you look at a starlit sky. Or an ocean. Or a mountain. Or a flower. Or even the reflection in your own mirror.