Here is a bit of trivia for you. Today's passage, Psalm 118 is the middle chapter in all the Bible. Cool huh? And even cooler is that, it of course, contains the middle verse in the Bible. Look at verse eight, "It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in humans." How perfect is that!! I love learning things like that and seeing, once again, how amazing God is.
As I read this passage for today's post I was struck by a recurring phrase and that is what I want to talk about with you today.
Have you ever had to endure something? Maybe you are in a season of enduring right now. Perhaps you are working at a job and putting in your time, knowing that the experience will make your more marketable down the road. Maybe you’re like I was and endured school in order to get your degree and start your career.
When I think of the word endure it does not normally have a positive feel to it, rather I think of it as, to tolerate. Our scripture today uses the word “endures” five times and each time it is in the phrase, “His (God’s) love endures forever.
Though it may seem like an oxymoron, it is rather fitting. God endures all our sin, all our selfishness, all our shortcomings because he loves us with a love that we cannot even begin to imitate. The love that He extends, through his son, will endure forever and for that I will be eternally grateful.
Let’s be like the psalmist and say,
“You are my God, and I will praise you;
you are my God, and I will exalt you.”
Read todays passage on Biblegateway Psalm 118
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