August 3, 2026
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Reading along with us in 2 Chronicles, Psalms, & Proverbs? Here’s today’s reading:
Psalms 89 (NIV)
A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever;
with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known
through all generations.
2 I will declare that your love stands firm forever,
that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.…..Continue Reading
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Psalm 89
“Praise be to the Lord forever! Amen and Amen.”
Psalms 89:52 NIV
Psalms 89
God is great and is above all. He rules creation with care, wisdom, power and authority and all reveals the loving God that He is. No one compares to Him. As an expression of His covenantal nature, He made a covenant with David and honored his faithfulness with a promise to have someone sit on his throne forever. But even though God is faithful to His promise, due to David’s and the nation’s unfaithfulness, God must correct him/them and withdraw His support. It leaves the Psalmist to ask how long will this last and when God’s favor will be on them again? We can certainly trust everything that God is doing to foster His will in our lives and seek to learn from His correction and follow in His ways.
Psalms 89
I love the familiarity of the Psalms, the fact that there was such connfidence in the promise of God in the first half of this and then admist some struggle or situation there is then doubt, confusion, and a plea for God to reveal himself in that situation. I can totally see myself here. I am confident in God, His promises, His righteousness, His ability to save me from every situation but it doesn’t stop me from those momentary times of doubt when things are going poorly. Those time that are usually a result of my own bad decisions but still I look to God and ask why? and where is He? But He is always there, always waiting for me to come back to Him and praise Him once again for all He has done and continues to do!
Psalm 1, 89; Zechariah 10
The Lord is our Father, our Rock, our God, our Savior. He will never take his love from us, always be faithful, not break his covenant or change what his Word says. Even when we are being disciplined, he will not leave us. He breaks us, he restores us, he changes us for the better and at the same time he holds us in his loving arms.
Psalms 89
“Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, Nor allow My faithfulness to fail. My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David: His seed shall endure forever, And his throne as the sun before Me;”
Psalms 89:33-36 NKJV
Psalm 89