🎤 Psalm 136 Song - His Love Endures Forever

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Some people, who don't believe in God, are quick to insist that a good and loving creator would not make a world with pain and suffering. Since there is pain and suffering, therefore, God cannot exist.

I can see their point. There does seem to be an awful lot of evil in the world. If I started recounting it now, going over each affliction, discomfort, and misery, I'm sure despair would follow close behind. Why does He permit children to die of cancer? Why is there hunger in the world?

In this dispute, we need to choose a perspective. Shall we recall what God isn't doing, or what God is doing?

The writer of Psalm 136 chooses the latter, and is convinced that everything God does is a result of his never-ending, faithful love.

And so, he makes a list, and concludes each line with the same mantra: His steadfast love endures forever! Beginning with God's goodness and character, he moves through God's supremacy and power, oversight and protection, favour and generosity, concluding with His constant provision. This writer reiterates that every blessing is a consequence of God's boundless love.

As I read this psalm, I find myself concentrating less on the first part of the verse, the “what,” and instead focusing on the “why,” God's love! It truly is the answer to every discussion. It can become the response to all of our worry, all of our prosperity, all of our insight, and even all of our pain: His steadfast love endures forever.

Are you able to adjust your perspective, to open your mind to the idea that all God's actions are motivated by His love? Whether blessing or pain, joy or sorrow, each shall end with the same conclusion: His steadfast love endures forever. And therein lies peace.

Amen.

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God’s Work in Creation and in History

1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures for ever.
2 O give thanks to the God of gods,
for his steadfast love endures for ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
4 who alone does great wonders,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
5 who by understanding made the heavens,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
6 who spread out the earth on the waters,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
7 who made the great lights,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
8 the sun to rule over the day,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
9 the moon and stars to rule over the night,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
10 who struck Egypt through their firstborn,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
11 and brought Israel out from among them,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
12 with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
13 who divided the Red Sea in two,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
14 and made Israel pass through the midst of it,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
16 who led his people through the wilderness,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
17 who struck down great kings,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
18 and killed famous kings,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
19 Sihon, king of the Amorites,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
20 and Og, king of Bashan,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
21 and gave their land as a heritage,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
22 a heritage to his servant Israel,
for his steadfast love endures for ever.
23 It is he who remembered us in our low estate,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
24 and rescued us from our foes,
for his steadfast love endures for ever;
25 who gives food to all flesh,
for his steadfast love endures for ever.
26 O give thanks to the God of heaven,
for his steadfast love endures for ever.

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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