Devotion:
Read Psalm 36:5-7.
There are some things in life on which you simply cannot put a price tag. Good relationships with family and friends. Spending time with those same people. A good weather day or week at your favorite vacation spot. Beautiful scenes of nature in any number of places. Combining all of those in the same time and place.
This week we are focused on and celebrating the love of God. In this Psalm, the writer uses some of the vast scenes of the created world to try to describe the enormity of God’s love. That writer did not know about the mind-blowing enormity of space, but we can still affirm the analogy: God’s love is so far-reaching, it is beyond our understanding. And verse seven adds another perfectly descriptive word: priceless.
I invite you to come up with at least ten words you would use to describe the love of God. Or if you want to, use phrases, images or pictures. How would you describe the love of God?
Personal Worship Option:
George Beverly Shea was a regular singer for Billy Graham crusades. My favorite song he sang was titled “The Love of God.” It was written by F. M. Lehman. Here is one of the verses:
Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.
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