From Norway the Oslo Choir sings the Power of Your Love. Press the arrow to listen as you read today’s devotion.

Scripture
….His love endures forever. Psalm 135

Observation
I had a friend who came to Christ by the sunrise. His teenage daughter announced she was pregnant and he not only thought the sun would never rise again, he never wanted the sun to rise again. But morning after morning, the sun rose, birds sang and life went on. The persistence of sunlight, combined with years of the witness of his wife, brought him to Christ. It was God who pulled that sun up over the horizon to remind him that his love does endure forever.

God’s love does endure forever. Psalm 135 is a bullet point tour of times when God showed up and did something to save his people. The psalm tells many facts but it gives only one lesson: no matter what happens next, there is more love to come from the Lord.

In this long list of accomplishments, there are two constants.

First, God’s love can persist through any hostile opposition. No human anger, force of nature or enemy is greater than he. God’s love is not lipid; it is lethal to those who oppose it. We think of problems as the persistent thing of life. This Psalm lifts our eyes beyond that to see that the love of God is the persistent thing.

Second, God has left persistent reminders to us of his love. The heavens, sun and moon are starters. Then littered through our lives are accomplishments we were strong enough or smart enough to muster. These accomplishments are God’s valentines to us.

Application
There is almost an unspoken invitation at the end of this psalm to us to continue this list for ourselves in our own lives. As I look backward in my life, what are the monuments of God’s love to me? As I look forward, what intimidates me that his love will outlast?

Prayer
Father, it is humbling to pray to a God like you, who not only feels love for me but acts it out. Your love does endure forever. Amen.