His Love Endures Forever

DEVOTION

PSALMS

HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER

Ps 136

136:1

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good.                                        His love endures forever.

2 Give thanks to the God of gods.                                                     His love endures forever. 

3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords:                                                   His love endures forever. 

4 to him who alone does great wonders,                                           His love endures forever.

 5 who by his understanding made the heavens,                              His love endures forever. 

6 who spread out the earth upon the waters,                                   His love endures forever. 

7 who made the great lights —                                                          His love endures forever. 

8 the sun to govern the day,                                                               His love endures forever. 

9 the moon and stars to govern the night;                                        His love endures forever. 

10 to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt                          His love endures forever.

11 and brought Israel out from among them                                    His love endures forever. 

12 with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;                                 His love endures forever. 

13 to him who divided the Red Sea asunder                                     His love endures forever. 

4 and brought Israel through the midst of it,                                   His love endures forever. 

15 but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea,                    His love endures forever. 

16 to him who led his people through the desert,                             His love endures forever. 

17 who struck down great kings,                                                        His love endures forever. 

18 and killed mighty kings —                                                             His love endures forever. 

19 Sihon king of the Amorites                                                            His love endures forever. 

20 and Og king of Bashan —                                                              His love endures forever.

 21 and gave their land as an inheritance,                                         His love endures forever. 

22 an inheritance to his servant Israel;                                              His love endures forever. 

23 to the One who remembered us in our low estate                        His love endures forever. 

24 and freed us from our enemies,                                                      His love endures forever.

 25 and who gives food to every creature.                                          His love endures forever. 

26 Give thanks to the God of heaven.                                                 His love endures forever. 

NIV

This is a little different format in which we put this psalm for the purpose of more clearly seeing the main point, His love endures forever. This is again a history lesson of who God is and what he has done concerning his creation. From the beginning of time, it was God we spoke everything into existence. It does not matter what any man has to say about the beginning of the world, or universe, they cannot know it as fact for they were not there. They only have theories. However, what God told Moses about how he did it all is fact, for God not only was there, but he was the one who spoke it all into being. His love endures forever. This must mean that it was his love that caused him to make the heavens, the sun and the moon. It was his love the caused him to spread the waters over the earth. It then was also his love which caused him to form man from the clay and breathe life into him and then to form woman from the man’s side. It was his love which caused him to do all he did for the Israel. First, their going down into Egypt although it was just one family, then after hundreds of years and their numbers were in the millions, he set them free and brought them out of Egypt. That reminds us of the trip Jesus made as an infant. Just one family went into Egypt, but more came out, because through Jesus millions have been set free. Because of God's love he went before Israel and destroyed those who would oppose them. First, he destroyed Pharaoh and his army who would put Israel back in bondage. This again reminds us that because of his love which endures forever, he has and will continue to destroy that which would put us back in bondage. Because Jesus has set us free from the bondage of sin, we have been set free indeed. Once we have been set free, we should not be the ones to put ourselves back in bondage, as Israel wanted to do rather than face what they thought was a hardship on the journey to the Promised Land. Just because the journey may be difficult at times we should not look back to the time of bondage with want in our heart. Because of his love he went before them, he was behind them and all around them. Because of his love he gave them a land he had promised to Abraham and his descendants. His love endured for all time and still endures because his love endures forever. He has promised us a Promised Land as well. He has promised all who believe eternal life in a new city of Jerusalem which is coming down from heaven, because his love endures forever. God has done it all, everything we ever need has been provided for us because his love endures forever. He gives food to every creature, which includes us. He is to be thanked, praised, honored, and reverenced continually within our being for without his enduring love we would be lost forever. But thanks be to God that his love endures forever.