Love remains... and continues

Our Daily Bread
Tina Turner recorded a song decades ago called "What's Love got to do with it?"  She was asking about romantic relationships between men and women obviously.  I ask the question today as a follow up to my blog entry yesterday (a whiteout in our spiritual lives).

What does love have to do with it during these times?  Just like a snowy day doesn't seem to serve any purpose at all other than to annoy us with more wintry weather, we can often fail to realize that love is at the core of our spiritual whiteouts!  I don't know about you, but God made me pretty independent.  I would have trouble serving a God who smothers me with love and attention all the time just like I don't appreciate it in my human relationships.  You need time away (even though God never leaves us).  "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."  Is that the saying?

God's love for us in never ending.  He allows things to happen to us to help us grow in faith and closer to him!  Praise God!

Lord, we don't always appreciate the way you help us grow, allowing us to be pushed to our limits at times.  If we think back, we can see the pattern of growth that your love inspired in us!  Praise God!

Psalm Sunday
We are reading Psalm 133 today.  It is very short, but it has a lot of meaning just in the first verse!  I don't think we understand verse 2 very well unless we have had to use some kind of oil to keep our skin moist during the winter.  It is very soothing to bath or rub on oils.  That is what verse 2 talks about.  Verse 3 is a reference to the mystery of how dew falls from higher mountains to lower mountains, in this case from Hermon to Zion. Very interesting reference to this here.

Psalm 133

A song of ascents. Of David.

1 How good and pleasant it is
    when God’s people live together in unity!
2 It is like precious oil poured on the head,
    running down on the beard,
running down on Aaron’s beard,
    down on the collar of his robe.
3 It is as if the dew of Hermon
    were falling on Mount Zion.
For there the Lord bestows his blessing,
    even life forevermore.

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 “The highest pinnacle of the spiritual life is not happy joy in unbroken sunshine, but absolute and undoubting trust in the love of God.” = A. W. Thorold