“Within your temple, O God,
we meditate on your unfailing love.”
Psalm 48:9
It is good to be still—to think, ponder, wonder, and meditate on God’s unfailing love.
Soak it in. Let it marinate in your heart. Marvel.
Allow it to amaze, overwhelm, and astonish.
The more I focus on who God is, the more I am aware of who I am not: My sinfulness contrasts with His holiness. My inability is eclipsed by His all sufficiency. My never-enough is lost in His more-than-enough.
Only a humble heart can fully praise Him. Only a humble heart is desperate for Him.
A heart that recognizes its own sin, and is broken by that realization, is profoundly grateful for the sacrificial love that declares it clean and pure. A transformed heart can worship with abandon, marveling at God’s unfailing love that makes it all possible.
Meditating on His love individually prepares us for coming together corporately. The Lord is glorified when the body of Christ—a group of broken hearts glued together with the blood of Jesus—comes together in worship. And when a sanctuary full of humble hearts meditates together on His unfailing love, the result is real, unvarnished, God-honoring, holy worship that makes much of Him.
Are you meditating on His unfailing love today? Are you joining your heart with fellow believers in worship?
Our Heavenly Father wants our praise, but He won’t demand it.
Our great God desires and deserves our worship, but He won’t compel it.
As you and I meditate today on His unfailing love, may it prompt praise from our lips and joy in our hearts.
Our March Write The WORD topic is BLESSED.
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This week’s Bible study was canceled due to an ice storm in Northwest Arkansas, but Laura recorded her teaching lecture for our YouTube channel. Watch Lesson 5 as we see the long-awaited fulfillment of God’s promise (from I Kings) to bring judgment on the house of Ahab.
