"The God of My Life" -2

"Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life." (Psalms 42:8) If we truly believe that God loves us, then we know in our hearts that He is always there for us, which is what He wants us to be; God wants us to be reaching out to Him, as His children, in need of a Father who has the power to get things done, we are reaching out to the One who has the power to do all things. Just as God commands the seas and the waves, He commands His love for us, it is more than just His desire that He love us, it is established in who He is, and in the way that He made us in His image. You might say that God's love commands our response, as God might ask the question, "Why won't you love Me?", and He deserves an answer, because of the magnitude of His love for us. That would be much like the way God had asked Job, saying, "Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou Me" (Job 38:3), as we think we know God's coming and going, His ways and His thoughts, yet we can hardly comprehend what we ourselves are, and where we came from, and where we are going. Our safest and most sure way to respond to God, is to just believe that He loves us, and then do all that we can to love Him back! Another way for us to view this verse, is to relate it to the way God went before the children of Israel in the the wilderness: "by day in the pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go day and night" (Exodus 13:21); as we can consider how the cloud that God provided them gave them shelter from the sun; besides guiding them and showing them the way that they should go, the cloud was like an umbrella to cover them and give them shelter; just as God's love in the daytime, which we can view as those bright sunny days of our lives, in which all is going well and there are no worries because we know that God's love is over us; verses the night time, in which things are dark and gloomy, where all that we have to hold onto to is God's brightness; where there is nothing else but the Refiner's Fire, and that which will come out on the other side, as He burns away all that is not of Him. In this case, we enjoy the the covering of His love for us in all that is good, and yet, when things are bad we must praise Him all the more, because it is time for business; it is time for burning off some of that world we took on during those good times; all the while, we must pray, praying unto the God of our life; meaning that He is the one in control of our life, not us: He is the Potter, we are just clay... "O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever. And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to Thy Holy Name, and glory in Thy praise. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD." (1 Chronicles 16:34-36)