April 7, 2021 -- Psalm 17:7 -- Wondrously show Your love!

Wondrously show your steadfast love,
O Savior of those who seek refuge
from their adversaries at your right hand.

Psalm 17:7 English Standard Version

This short verse begins with an imperative—a strong request of God the Savior. There is the sense of as You have in the past shown Your wondrous and steadfast love to your people show it now again! Think of it. How often the LORD our God has shown love to His faithless people. He delivered them out of Egypt—they grumbled for food imagining the God Who brought them laden with treasures out of Egypt from slavery to freedom couldn’t provide food. He gave them mana. They grumbled because they wanted meat to eat. He provided quail. The great lesson of Scripture is that the LORD our God is mighty to save. Every time, He is mighty to save. Repeatedly His is mighty to save. To a people who constantly forget His goodness, He is mighty to save.

Seek refuge in Him. Pray. Ask for the help you so desperately need. He is the Savior of those who seek refuge in Him. Your own resources will never be enough. Your strength and and your skills will fail. But the LORD our God is wondrous in His steadfast love. Again and again and again and again He rescues His people. You might object, but I am a sinner. Yes you are. Turn from your sin to Him for He will save. But I am not worthy. True, you are not. But He is the Savior of those who are nothing in the eyes of the world—He knit you together in your mother’s womb. You are fearfully and wonderfully made for His purposes. Do not lose hope. Seek refuge in Him for it is His glory and His delight to save those who seek Him.

Here I am again, God my Savior. Stuck. Frustrated. I know how desperately I need Your mercy, but wrestling with the thought that I am tap-dancing on Your last, frayed, nerve. Maybe this time I am beyond the grip of Your grace and mercy?! Thank You for the richness of today’s text—Oh, I confess how much I need to hear it. Whenever and every time I need it, You show steadfast love which is wondrous—overflowing with abundance, brimful of constantly renewing love, bursting with joy, rock-solid in faithfulness. Help me to understand more fully how rich and vast and extravagant is Your storehouse of mercy, ever being replenished by the love of Christ and generously poured out by His Spirit’s presence. Blessed be Your Name, Triune God, as Your restore my hope. Amen.

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