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Seeing Jesus in Psalm 36

How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings. Psalm 36:7 NLT   Psalm 36 We are confronted with a description of wickedness that is frightening. The seemingly unbounded wickedness of humans denying God is followed by the truly limitless love of God. I have heard people say that we don’t see the grace of God until we get to the new testament but I have seen the grace of God continually since I have begun to write in response to the Psalms. Grace, mercy and love are fountains and rivers flowing from God toward all humanity. The quality and quantity of God’s love is determined by God and His character, not by the recipient. David asks for justice but recognises that God’s love is in the first place indiscriminate.  MAIN POINT: God’s unfailing love is greater than mankind’s wickedness. 7 How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings. 8 You feed them from the abundance of your...