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SAA Notes
Countless generations have learnt this psalm by heart. It’s truths both comfort and challenge. It ends with the glorious truth that I have to rely on Him myself!
SJA Notes
* Mighty God, You are the Creator, Sustainer and Life-Giver – There is none like You!
“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!”
This is a well-known psalm, a wonderful exhortation.
We are called at the start and the end of the psalm to BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL.
Here the psalmist is transfixed with a high purpose, one that we all God’s people are to have.
Though the reality of our days being like grass is clear, we are to be gripped instead with the sight of the Lord!
“But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him.”
God’s love is so incomprehensibly vast that the psalmist puts the word “everlasting” at the two ends of a spectrum we can only understand in small part.
But one thing we can understand is that God’s love IS THAT BIG.
His love for us.
This is what we can tell those around us. This steadfast love. This faithfulness without end.
This is the love of the heavenly Father showing compassion for His children.
God’s love provides meaning to the lost, to the lonely, to those desperately seeking meaning in this life.
Because we _are_ like grass.
Because God’s love is an everlasting true reality, high as the heavens above the earth.
Bless the Lord, O my soul!
* God Above,
You alone are worthy of all praise – Bless Your Name!
Please help us to show Jesus to those around us today, today and onwards.
Amen.