Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
your judgments are like the great deep;
man and beast you save, O Lord.
How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light do we see light.
This is another psalm I have heard put to music as a worship song. It deserves to be sung over and over, to remind us of the vastness of God’s attributes. So often I find I do not realize just how massive God is-- His power, love, mercy, holiness, etc. I tend to, unconsciously, put human limits on Him. I get halfway through a prayer and realize I am responding to Him as though His patience with me has limits, as though my sin is bigger than His mercy. Once I realize my error, it seems silly, yet I often slip into these beliefs without even realizing it. I worry about problems because they seem big, when I really should be focusing on the omnipresence and omnipotence of God. I pray frantically for the children I work with; I should be comforted by the fact that God loves and cares for them infinitely more than I do. I become depressed thinking too much of my sin and too little of God’s forgiveness. We could sing psalms like this all day long, and still our minds wouldn’t comprehend just how big our God is. But it is incredibly good to praise Him and remind ourselves of His attributes.
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