October 21 - Psalm 107

October 21 - Psalm 107

Don’t you wish sometimes people would let you use your imagination and just give you the outer frame of the picture?  Well, this is what you need to know from Psalm 107.

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever” (Psalm 107:1).

“Consider the great love of the Lord” (Psalm 107:43b).

There, that’s what you need to know.  You can build the picture of those whom He loves from there.  You can also read the Psalm and find out that the ones loved by God span the entirety of the human condition.

He saved people from their enemies.  He brought His people back from other lands.  Those who were far from everything and couldn't find their way home, He led them back.  He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

While you can imagine these are people who are physically far from home and physically thirty and hungry; please also recognize that there are so many who are spiritually far from home and are yearning with all they have to be filled with the love of the Lord (Psalm 107:2-9).

There were those who sat in dungeons dark and gloomy, chained because of their sins.  There were those who approached death because their rebellion had destroyed their desire to live well.  There were those who traveled far from home on the seas. They thought they were seeing everything the Lord had created, but because they were relying on their own strength, when it ran out they were lost.  He broke their chains, healed their bodies and stilled the storms of their lives (Psalm 107:10-31).

Even though the Lord dried up rivers because of wickedness, He also turned that around, bringing water to the desert of people’s lives. He created a haven for those who were hungry and thirsty and lost.  It was a place where each person could make a home and live in peace.  When they got out of hand, he humbled them, but when there were those in need, He lifted them (Psalm 107:32-42).

If you are wise, you will learn from this, the Psalmist says.  You will also consider the great love of the Lord.