Psalm 107:43 - October 27, 2009

Ps 107:43 “Whoever is wise, let him heed these things and consider the great love of the LORD.” NIV

One of the greatest signs of wisdom is a teachable spirit. Many people form their opinions without information and then seek information that supports their opinion. When we do this we find ourselves fighting to defend the areas of deception that increasingly develop in our lives. Many people have accepted the lie that says “you are not loved, you have no value” and many other false beliefs about ourselves that damage our self-concept. Psalm 107 emphasizes the great lengths to which God has gone to speak into our hearts the abundant message “YOU ARE LOVED!”
This passage places a strong emphasis on the measure of the love of God. There is a kind of love that is rooted in the feelings of the heart but has no sense of capacity to express that love in the context of its circumstances. This will never be the case with God. The scriptures declare that God’s very essence is that He is a being of love. His power is measureless and therefore His capacity to communicate love into our hearts and lives is without limit.
Psalm 107 reminds us that it is wisdom to consider the great love of the Lord. How can this be? Why is an understanding of the great love of the Lord valuable to a heart of wisdom? The answer to this question is in truth quite simple: to rightly understand the Lord we must understand His primary motive towards us. In the Garden of Eden one of the strengths of Satan’s temptation as he extended it towards Eve was to question God’s motives in His dealings with Adam and Eve. He cast doubt on God’s integrity which provoked Eve to fall into unbelief and sin. A right understanding of the love of God would have prevented this. Had she understood that God is completely loving in His ways towards us, and that His motives are never corrupted by selfish agendas, her capacity to accept His boundaries for her life would have been greatly reinforced.
Many of us fall into unnecessary striving and pain because we do not connect in our hearts to the reality that we are loved with a perfect love and that we our Father deals with us through a perfect wisdom. As tokens of His love God has provided for us redemption through Christ, a position as Sons and Daughters, called us friends, He has sent His Holy Spirit of Adoption into our hearts and so much more. We are loved with an everlasting and all powerful love that as I Corinthians says “never fails.” The more we consider the great love of God the more we will be empowered to live in a security of heart that makes us bold and faith-filled. Knowing the love of God enables us to trust both His word and His ways so that we can confidently rest in His leadership over our lives in every circumstance.