Psalm 17:7-8 February 14, 2009

Ps 17:7-8 "Show the wonder of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes. 8 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings." NIV

The wonder of God’s great love! One night I had a dream where the Lord spoke to me and said, “If you want to understand the love of the Father, meditate on Jn.3:16.” David is crying out for a revelation of God’s all surpassing love! It was an unparalleled love that motivated the Father to send us the gift of his Son. Yet the world goes on blinded to the preciousness of the gift that has been given. Let it be our prayer that the world will receive this revelation that we are loved by the creator of all things. David had such an understanding.
The Apostles make a series of powerful statements about the love of God that give us a taste of what is in God’s heart. Rom 5:5 “God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit,” Rom 5:8 “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us,” 1 John 3:1 “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God,” Rom 8:38-39 “neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
The love of God is a love poured out. The love of God is a love that is demonstrated. The love of God is lavished upon us. Nothing in heaven and earth can separate us from this great love. What is needed is a revelation of the measure of this love, the nature of this love. This was Paul’s prayer in Eph 3:17-19 “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love , 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” David understood this love and stated it very simply when he prayed, “Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings!” We are the center of God’s creation, the apple of his eye, loved and secure in his presence. Cry out for this revelation until your heart has been shaped by this confident assertion, that you are the apple of God’s eye!