God Promises His Unfailing Love

Psalms 44:26 Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love.
 
THIS is another maskil – a song of instruction from the Sons of Korah. They are teaching God’s love does not fail.
   In contrast, if you’ve read the entire psalm, you may think, “God’s love seemed to fail Israel.” The psalmists lament in v 10 You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us. 11 You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
   How was this possible? After all, the psalm also teaches of God’s history to fight for Israel. V 2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.
   Had Israel sinned to cause their defeat? Many times God’s judgment was to use Israel’s enemies as a punishing rod. But the psalmist objects. V 17 All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant. 19 But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals and covered us over with deep darkness. “Why us? What have we done?”
   Have you asked those questions? Did you feel God had so deliberately and unjustly fought against you – even covered you with deep darkness? The psalmists even seem to accuse God. V 22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. “Because we fight for you, God, we suffer!” Then comes the plea: v 24 Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression? Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love.
   Where, then, is God’s unfailing love? One of the great benefits of carefully reading the entire Bible is to understand how God’s love works to fulfill his promise of an eternal Savior. God continually renews his promise to Israel throughout their centuries of sin. If his love had ever failed, he would have destroyed Isarel on their desert journey. But his unfailing love called them back from their sin. His unfailing love became very real when Jesus submitted to the cross.
   That’s why the apostle Paul wrote this remarkable truth oof God’s unfailing love promise in Romans 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  God’s eternal promise is real for you. His love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:8)
   The psalms are a collection of God’s people expressing many emotions toward God. God inspired various men to skillfully record the depth and height of their emotions. God’s unfailing love opened the door for their honest expression of their frustrations and their joys.
   This is our human condition. God wants our emotions. He wants to hear from us, so he can speak into our hearts. Each time we wonder, “Where is God’s love?” we must know nothing separates us from God’s love. The cross’ message does not fail.