Psalm 36:5 says, “Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies” (NIV).
This verse isn’t talking about about something measurable, like the length of a kite string. It’s not as if you could calculate the distance from here to the heavens, and once it had stretched that far, God’s love would run out.
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No, this is figurative language that paints a picture of the immeasurable love and faithfulness of God.
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It’s the kind of faithfulness that God displays towards me on my worst days—on the days when I screw up, when I choose selfishness over service, obstinacy over obedience, and loathing over love.
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It’s this kind of faithfulness that compels the God and King of the universe—the supreme creator who holds limitless power in his hands—to keep on loving a broken, messed up troublemaker like me, despite the offenc
es I’ve committed against Him.
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God shows his faithfulness to me in this way over and over, year after year.
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He remains devoted to me, in spite of me.
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He refuses to give up on me when I am ready to give up on myself.
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He chooses not to hold my past sins against me, but He looks at me as a new creation.
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He loves me through my mess…
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And He always will.
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How have you seen God’s faithfulness on display in your life this year?