5 Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Psalms 36:5-6
After 4 verses of realizing who we are without Christ, the psalmist stops to consider the greatness of the love of God. Read the first four verses again and understand that we do not deserve to be loved. We are a sinful people, and yet...
"God shows His love to us in that while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"Now this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4:10)
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, what whoever believes in Him will not perish, but will have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
5 Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
Note the span of the love of God. It is everlasting. It is beyond what we can picture. It is greater than we can imagine. The love of God has no measure.
Note that God's love in "steadfast"... it is unwavering. It is immovable. When God has showed His love to you, that love will remain steadfast toward you. When God shows His love to you, there is a great change in your life. This is regeneration or conversion! The love of God CHANGES you! And it is steadfast, meaning, that you will be forever changed by the love of God. You will not lose the love of God, and the love of God will not leave you.
The love of God is faithful. When you struggle, God's love is greater. When you are weary, God's love endures. When you are doubting, God's love is the answer. When you are failing, God's love remains true.
There is this infinite chasm between God's holiness and our unrighteousness. And the only way that we can be reconciled to God is because God love and grace and mercy coves that infinite chasm. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
God is perfect. He is great. He is Holy! His nature is beyond our comprehension. His righteousness is like the mountains in such a way that is beyond the perfection that we can possibly understand. "Holy! Holy! Holy! Is the Lord God Almighty! Heaven and earth are filled with His Glory!" (Isaiah 6:3).
In His purity and Holiness, even His judgements are perfect. The justice of God is pure. The decisions of God is pure. And in this holiness, He chooses to preserve all of His creation. This is what it means here when the psalmist says, "you save." It means that as beautiful as creation is, nothing compares to God's perfection and God's Holiness and yet, He chooses to preserve everything.
Great is the love of the Lord!! We do not deserve His love.
(HYMN) The Love of God
The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the highest star
And reaches to the lowest hell.
The guilty pair,
bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled
And pardoned from his sin.
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
