A Look at Psalm 119:41

Psalm 119:41 “May Your unfailing love come to me, O Lord, Your salvation according to Your promise.”
 

The cry of David’s heart is for the unfailing love of God. He is longing for the Messiah. Jesus is the unfailing love of God. Throughout all of the Old Testament, we see the prophets and patriarchs looking for the first coming of their Messiah. Today, after His birth, death, and resurrection, we continue to look for Him but with a different focus. We still look for the unfailing love of God but we also look for His second coming. We have our salvation through His blood. Now we long for His return.
 

Have you ever considered why you long for Him? It seems so often that we seek His return so He can take us away from the drudgery of this world. If that is our only motive, we miss the greater blessing of longing for Him. David longed for the Messiah Himself. It will certainly be a wonderful experience to enter into His presence. However, there is another facet to this we should consider. It is that of being a blessing to Him. 

Martha Wing Robinson once said, “He did not ask for you to have experiences: it was not that we should be wonderful. He asked for yourself for one purpose, that He might have you for Himself.” It seems that we are always looking for some wonderful experience in our walk with God, and when we run into peril we ask Jesus to come and take us out of it. That really is more of a focus on self than on Him. Have you ever considered what it would be for you to be Jesus’ wonderful experience?
 

Take some time this weekend to meditate on this verse, contemplating on that great day when Jesus returns and takes you up in His arms like a child. On that day, you will be His wonderful experience.

Continued