Loyal and Dependable

Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Psalm 42:8

We return to a text we contemplated several days ago.  For a few moments, let us dwell upon what this text tells us about the Character of God.  Our text declares, ‘Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.’  As we consider these words, they reveal to us that God is loyal and dependable.  The word lovingkindess describes for us the committed, unswerving, unfailing love which God has for His people.  He loves us deeply, faithfully, and without reservation or condition.  He manifests His love to us ‘in the daytime and in the night.’  No matter what else fails in our lives, we can always depend upon God.  We see the Character of God most clearly in the Person of Christ.  All throughout the Old Testament, we observe Christ appearing in pre-incarnate form to demonstrate the loyalty and dependability of God to His covenant people.  We see His lovingkindness to Abraham and to his descendants.  We see Him as He appeared to Joshua , to Elijah, to Daniel, and to the three in the furnace.  All of our New Testament observations of Christ and how He behaved lead us to the conclusion that He is loyal and dependable.  If we would understand the Character of God, we must see it as He reveals it in the words and works of Christ.  Here is the Character of the loyal and dependable God on display.

Our Never-Failing God,
we rejoice that when all around us gives way,
You are still the same.
We praise You that Christ our Savior,
will meet us at our point of need,
in every changing scene of life.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning