Let’s finish Psalm 100 and memorize verse 5 by drawing a picture to cue each word or group of words we are learning.
This Psalm has been so encouraging! We’ve drawn joy, gladness, thanksgiving, praise, love, and faithfulness. All words that lighten the heart and guide us toward the appropriate attitudes Christians should have.
Verse 5 caps off this Psalm beautifully: For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Here we are reassured that God is indeed eternal. It truly challenges me to think of “forever”. We will live forever with Jesus in heaven. Everything we have ever known has existed in our current linear timeline, making this a challenging concept.
The Lord is described as “good” and with enduring love forever. All generations will experience his faithfulness.
He doesn’t get tired, give up, and go home! Want to know how he loves the generations?
1 Corinthians 13:4-12
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Our blueprint for love is right here, yet he loves more perfectly than we could ever conceive. Now we understand his love in part. One day, we will live it fully.
The reference to generations tells me that there is a long game here, and he has a plan that is being lived out and fulfilled daily here on earth. Nothing can stop or hinder it, in fact we know the end of the story…God wins!
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
1 John 5:1-21
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ..
Matthew 27:51
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split.
This verse in Matthew is very symbolic in teaching the victory won on the cross. Behind the temple’s curtain was the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant and the spirit of God dwelled. No one had access to this but the High Priest once a year on the Day of Atonement as he made a sacrifice for the people.
If this was not done exactly as prescribed by God, the Priest would die. Anyone who went behind the curtain at any other time would die. Mere mortals could not be in the presence of a holy God and live.
The tearing of this curtain shows we all now have full access to God because he won the victory on the cross and conquered death! The curtain is no longer needed, and Jesus paved the way for us to have a victorious relationship with God!
Psalm 100:5
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Beautiful words for God’s people! Isn’t it grand to be a Christian? Enjoy the video of me drawing verse 5, and comment below which verse you would like me to draw next!