Create in Me a Clean Heart: The 40-Day Challenge (Psalms)Sample

God Does Not Withhold His Love

Psalm 66

Psalm 66 is one of the many psalms that glorify God and magnify His power.

The psalmist celebrates and highlights the “awesome” deeds that God did to save the Israelites. At the same time, he invites all nations to join in the celebration because God is always present, both then and today. As we read the psalm, we are introduced in parts - to praising God, God’s help in trials, the joy of salvation, and then thanksgiving and the spread of God’s glory and praise.

And this isn’t an invitation on a collective level only, but it also refers to oneself personally, individually. The psalmist praises and gives thanks, because God has helped him in his hour of need and attended to the voice of his prayer. And who among us has not experienced such moments?! Moments when it seemed to us that God did not hear or see, that there was no way out. But that is a deception, because God never gives up on us and does not break his promise: I will never leave you, nor forsake you. (Heb 13:5) Doesn’t he also say: I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.(Jer 31:3) The term everlasting does not mean today yes, tomorrow no - or if you are good yes, and if you have made a mistake no. Man, in his weak nature, often reacts exactly like that, but God never does. His eternal love is a permanent condition regardless of what we are like; He does not withhold His steadfast love from us. Psalm 66 invites us to turn to Him in moments of trouble, sickness and temptation. He hears, He sees, He delivers.

Maybe life’s circumstances are not always easy, but we believers have a reason for lasting joy because God, through Jesus Christ, saves us from the “greatest trouble”, eternal destruction.