Thy Loving Kindness

The Bible, God's Word mentions His Loving Kindness some 30 times. No wonder
that when our family was Baptized with the Holy Spirit in 1970, this particular
expression became very significant to us. We started singing from scripture
and specially sung Psalm 63-3/4: " because Thy Loving Kindness is better than
live, my lips shall praise Thee. Thus will I bless Thee. While I live I will
lift up my hands in Thy name". Ofcourse, you can not sing this without lifting
up your hands. However at first we did not lift our hands up very high visable.
Many newcomers like us were fllying them " half mast". But later on we
started to lift our hands as high as possible, even waving them to the Lord.!
Freedom in the Spirit was released ! Kindness and to be kind is certainly of divine
origin. Webster defines it as "being disposed to be helpful and solicitous"
Indeed the Lord's Loving Kindness is definite connected to His deeds of help and
His concern for our well being. It is good to proclaim and tell about the
Loving Kindness of the Lord, which you yourself do experience. Because Isaiah 63-
7 says" I will mention the Loving Kindness of the Lord" And on the end of the
verse" according to the multitudes of His Loving Kindnesses". Psalm 25-6 is
also speaking of His Loving Kindnesses. Notice that it is mentioned in plural
form here. This means that Loving Kindness is not only the attitude of the Lord
but also HIs Kind deeds. Because someones attitude is not expressed in plural
form. King David cries out in dispair, apparently sick and depressed. Psalm
88-11 "Shall Thy Loving Kindness be declared in the grave ? Or Thy Faithfuness
in destruction "? Thus he is pleading to be healed and able to continue to
declare the Lord's Loving Kindness. What also deserves notice is that God's word
mentions twice His Loving Kindness in the morning. Psalm 92-8 and Psalm 143-8.
: "to shew forth Thy Loving Kindness in the morning and Thy Faithfulness
every night." " Cause me to hear Thy Loving Kindness in the morning: for in Thee
do I trust. " Is it not wonderfull to start your day with God's Loving Kindness
? If we do that, an other verse connects it to all day and the night. Psalm
42-8 says " Yet the Lord will command His Loving Kindness in the day time and
in the night " His song shall be with me and my prayer unto the God of my life
". What a blessing it is to wake up sometimes during the night with a song and
a prayer unto the Lord in your mind ! Several other verses are connecting
Loving Kindness to our human lives. Starting to tell us that we need redemption
and contuing to tell us that it draws us resuting in His salvation through
Jesus. Finishing with our complete preservation . Psalm 103-4 It redeems our lives
from destruction. Jerimia 31-3 speaks of it as " drawing us" Psalm 17- 7 Is
telling us about salvation through HIs Right Hand ! Psalm 40-1 Is speaking
about our preservation.
I am ending this devotion with
my biblical reason for E mailing it to you all : Psalm 40-10 I have not hid
Thy rigtheousnous within my heart.1 have declared Thy Faithfulness and Thy
Salvation: I have not concealed THY LOVING KINDNES and Thy Truth from the great
Congregation .Yours in Christ.

Johannes G Weiss. PS . If you were blessed by this, Please send it on to
others .