"Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies." (v. 5)

For Reading and Meditation:     Psalm 36:1-12

How wonderful it is, in an age where unfaithfulness abounds, to focus our gaze on those Scriptures that point to the trustworthiness of our God. The one before us today is quite wonderful, but consider also these: "O Lord God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O Lord, and your faithfulness surrounds you" (Psalm 89:8); "Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash round his waist" (Isaiah 11:5); "If we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself" (2 Timothy 2:13). Can't you just feel the energy that flows from these Scriptures buttressing your confidence in God? For God to be unfaithful would be to act contrary to His nature, and if He ever was (we are only speculating because He could never do so) then He would cease to be God. Focus again with me on the text at the top of the page. We are told God's faithfulness extends to the skies. This is the psalmist's picturesque way of expressing the fact that far above all finite comprehension is the unchanging faithfulness of God. Everything about God is vast and incomparable, including His faithfulness. He never forgets a thing, never makes a mistake, never fails to keep a promise, never falters over a decision, never retracts a statement He has made, and has never breached a contract. Every declaration He has made, every promise He has given, every covenant He has struck is vouchsafed by His faithful character. This is why Christians all around the world can say with confidence: "– his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness" (Lamentations 3:22-23).

O God, how great Thou art. Great in power, great in majesty, great in love, great in mercy - great in so many things. But above all you are great in faithfulness. How I rejoice in that. Amen.