Needed: More “His Steadfast Love Endures Forever” Sessions!

You’ve encountered the conversations – both kinds! Some are just “piling up gripes” episodes (a real downer that leaves everyone is a terrible mood) – others are characterized by the words of the old gospel song, “Count your many blessing”!

Perhaps we need to do more than “count our blessings” though… (although counting them is a good start)! How about “considering” them – or even “celebrating them”!!

My Bible reading today during “coffee with the Lord” brought me to Psalm 136, categorized as a “salvation history song” (in other words it is a psalm that God’s ancient people used to recall and rehearse God provision, protection and powerful saving acts on their behalf). Many scholars believe it was sung antiphonally by two choirs (one would sing out one of the blessings and provision of the Lord, the other would respond with the repeated echo… “His steadfast love [“hesed” – Hebrew] endures forever!” (You’ll have to read the entire Psalm to capture the effect… I’ll give you a taste…

Nothing.. No one… No situation… No circumstance… can separate us from His love!!! Here it is from Psalm 136…

“…His steadfast love endures forever!

Get it?… 26 times in one psalm!! That’s why I’m ready to lay claim to Romans 8:37-39 as a foundational, unshakable, dependable, truth in the Bible…

“No! In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord!”

I’ve had enough of “piling up gripe” sessions… I want to instigate some “Count… consider… celebrate your many blessings” conversations, don’t you?!

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