Banner of Love
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Psalm 63:2-5 NIV
I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
Song of Solomon 2:3,4 KJV
I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
I’ve had quite an incredible couple of weeks! God has been very “busy” in Richmond, Virginia during the month of August! Really, though, there have been so many “god-incidences” that I can’t even keep track of them all. I’m just finding tremendous assurance and comfort in them. Because I know that God is intimately involved in my life—and I have really needed His involvement more than usual lately!
I have this habit of feeling responsible for the whole world. And it gets burdensome and wears me out, literally. You would think that with this self-awareness, I would try to head it off at the pass—but too often I’ve already charged right ahead and tried to solve every problem, set every situation right, or just worry and stew at how things might go wrong or probably already have gone wrong. . . I don’t do it all the time, mind you, just when I’m already tired, not feeling well, or already stressed about something – okay, that is really pretty often!
But throughout the past couple of weeks, God has placed certain people in my path, ensured that events took place in a certain order, and revealed truths to me at certain times, that can only be His work, and His will. That is very comforting and satisfying to me. It makes me feel as if I am under His banner of love. I can’t help but glorify Him and declare His glory with every breath!
His love is better than life! The assurance of that love satisfies more than the finest foods or the richest dessert! I am so blessed to feast at the table of His abundant blessings! And even more! He promises us eternal life with Him in heaven! It really doesn’t get any better than that!
I hope you spend your day “under his shadow with great delight,” lifting up your hands and praising him with singing lips.
Mary
