“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
love and faithfulness go before you.”
love and faithfulness go before you.”
Psalm 89:14 (NIV)
This psalm has so many wonderful truths about God in it that we could spend the whole week just going verse by verse praising God for who He is and for what He has done for His people.
But I would like us to zero in on the word that appears over and over again in this psalm, the note that the psalmist strikes repeatedly. That word is faithfulness, you hear it in verse 1, verse 2, verse 5, verse 8, verse 14, verse 33 and verse 49. This note is struck again and again and accompanying this note is the sound of love. God’s faithfulness and love go hand in hand, they are linked together like righteousness and justice are linked together - inseparable! Verse 24 says “My faithful love will be with him”, which captures the truth in a nutshell- that God’s faithfulness is His love, that His love is expressed through His faithfulness. That is that His love never fails because He is faithful, and that because He is faithful He will never stop loving us- don’t take this in a sentimental way, as humans we get love all twisted up - no - this psalm is teaching us that this love that He has for His children, this active redeeming, restoring covenant love that He expresses to us through His Son our Lord Jesus Christ, never fails, never stops – He is always with us, always acting on our behalf, always redeeming, always restoring, always providing. Do we believe this about our God? I mean really believe it? In the centre of our being believe it? This psalmist believed it for it formed the basis of his plea for help as he cried out to His God “Where is former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David?” No hint of I deserve your help - the psalmist falls back on God’s covenant promise to his king David. So it will be with all of us who believe in the faithful love of our heavenly Father- we will fall back on God’s covenant promise to our King Jesus.
Faithful means God keeps His promises to His beloved.
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