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by Precarious Yates
Narrated by Artificial Intelligence – Michelle.
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“How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.”
Psalms 36:7-8 NIV
This has been the sort of week that I never want to repeat. We’ve not seen temps anywhere close to above freezing. We lost 2 lambs and a ewe. There seems to be no light at the end of the tundra tunnel. My physical and emotional strength have been tested beyond their limits and I daily had to cry out for more.
Still, God’s love never fails. His “wings” of peace and faithfulness were always there for me to hide beneath. When I couldn’t sleep because of nightmares and obligations, I reached out to the Lord and found His peace. I had friends and family to reach out to for prayer. I had help come from unexpected sources. His mercies came in the form of renewed strength and inner peace.
Earlier this week, before everything took a turn from incredibly stressful to outright horrendous, I was praying about what scriptures to share from. Over and over, this passage from Psalm 36 arose in my heart.
“How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.”
Psalms 36:7-8 NIV
Without His unfailing love, I would be completely defeated by all we had to endure and do. But I knew this: by His grace I dwell in the house of the Lord. And in that house there is abundance. That abundance is exceedingly abundantly more than we can ask or even imagine. There is joy: there is a whole river of joy from which we can sip, gulp, quench our thirst again and again and it never runs dry.
There is wonder that surpasses all of our ache and sorrow. The scales hardly measure our pain and suffering in comparison to the glory prepared for us:
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”
Romans 8:18 NIV
Even if you have days where your fingertips barely touch the peace and strength you need, it’s still there in greater abundance than you can contain.
Why a greater abundance?
The abundance is so that when our cup overflows, it spills into the cups of those who are parched. Because so many people are languishing and longing for that unfailing, everlasting love. May your cup runneth over with it!
God bless you!
Precarious Yates
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