"There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still."

The thunder of Your voice
Fills my heart,
Still I can hear you whisper
In the Dark.

Psalm 33:16-22

"No king is saved by the size of his army;
no warrior escapes by his great strength
A horse is a vain hope for deliverance
despite all its great strength it cannot save.
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him,
on those whose hope is in His unfailing love,
to deliver them from death
and keep them alive in famine.
We wait in hope for the Lord;
He is our help and our shield.
In Him our hearts rejoice,
for we trust in His holy name.
May Your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord,
even as we put our hope in You."


How often do I forget that incredible promise! I put my hope in myself or in the things around me, and forget about the unfailing love of Jesus Christ. WHY? Doesn't Romans 8 say that "neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord"? Whether or not we keep this amazing truth in our focus or not determines a great deal. When we remember His boundless love for us, we then have the courage to go out into the world with the brightest Light in our hearts to salt the earth with the gospel of Jesus. If not, if we forget like I so often do, then we become spineless. Acts is full of men who kept their hope in God's unfailing love rather than in themselves. In the fifth chapter, Peter and the apostles have been doing incredible things around Jerusalem, performing miracles and convicting people about Jesus. To make a long story short, they get thrown in jail for preaching about the true Messiah. However, an angel opened the doors of the jail that night, and then continued the next day. Well, the guys who put them in jail in the first place (the Sadducees) had them put on trial before a group of religious leaders who called themselves the Sanhedrin. Again, they tell Peter and the others to cease and desist. Peter tells them that he listens to God, and they are contradicting Him (doesn't make them too happy). It ends up that they don't kill these guys yet, but they have them flogged (cat of nine tails, look it up, it could kill you). Here's the part that I love so much. It says in verse 41 that "The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ." That is absolutely mind-boggling to me. They rejoiced because they were privileged enough to suffer for the Name. The Name stood for redemption. It stood for the hope that they had. "Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Along with the Name comes His unfailing love. That needs to be my focus, so that I can truly say with conviction "I love You, more than life."