Psalm 117New Living Translation
“1 Praise the Lord, all you nations. Praise him, all you people of the earth. 2For his unfailing love for us is powerful, the Lord’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise the Lord!”
Allow me to introduce you to the shortest Psalm in the Bible. Two verses make up this anonymously written Psalm. This is in stark contrast to the longest Psalm, which is Psalm 119. That Psalm has a total of 176 verses. That is also anonymously written although some scholars suggest it was written by Ezra the priest.
This Psalm or sacred song proclaims that God’s love never fails. This makes it powerful. People have the sad tendency to place conditions on the love they extend to others. Whether spoken or not, it lessens it’s power. God loves us in spite of ourselves. He made us and loves us more than anyone else ever could. He obviously has an enormous capacity to love his creation regardless of who they are or what they’ve done.
Not only is God’s love everlasting, so is his faithfulness. 2 Timothy 2:13 speaks of God’s faithfulness when it says: “If we are faithless [do not believe and are untrue to Him], He remains true (faithful to His Word and His righteous character), for He cannot deny Himself.”(1)His love and faithfulness have nothing to do with our actions or reactions to anything in our life, it is in his character. A person’s character is their moral strength and integrity and it is no different with God.
The character of God is unchanging. He never makes a wrong decision, nor does he ever regret his decisions. The only 2 examples of God’s regret that I am aware of are in Genesis 6 where God said he was sorry he made man on the earth. 1 Samuel 15:35 gives us another example as he said he regretted making Saul king over Israel. In both cases his regret was not that hemade a mistake, but because of man’s evil nature taking over. This allowed for great violence and evil, so much so, at least in Genesis’ case, it had become unsafe for righteous people to live. Isn’t it amazing how much we can glean from nothing more than a 2 verse Psalm? Until next time, walk with the King and be a blessing!
Resources: The Life Application Study Bible; https://lifehopeandtruth.com/god/who-is-god/genesis-6/& www.biblegateway.com.
(1) The Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) of The Lockman Foundation.
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