"God Loves His People"

PSALMS 78 [Maschil of Asaph.]
As abruptly as the last Psalm ended, this one picks right up where it left off, telling the wonderful story of why we need to be comforted, because God loves His people, no matter what! Do you get what that means? We can do nothing to cause God to love us more or less, because God's love is constant and never changes. We find that hard to understand because our love is so tangible and based upon our feelings; like, maybe I don't feel loved today, or maybe I don't feel like loving today, or maybe today I am all out of love. You know the time when God told Moses, "I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them," (Numbers 14:12); I personally don't believe God said what He said for any other reason than to make Moses love His people, because God would never go back on His word to Abraham, Issac and Jacob. Besides that, it's not like God did not know already what Israel would do, because He most assuredly did. As a matter of fact, at one point when God had told Abraham that "out of him would come a mighty nation," God showed Abraham in a vision all the bad things that would happen to that nation, and how they would be held captive in Egypt for four hundred years (Genesis 15:13). It is my understanding that God did that to kindle a fire in Abraham's heart for his descendants, to not only allow Abraham to believe that they were for real, but to make his heart break for them. If we only knew in advance what people might be going through, it might change the way we treat them or care for them. (I feel sick!) Or love them! "Maschil" is a word that means 'instruction' or to give instruction. It is always in our best interest to not only pay attention to the instruction given in God's word, but to put His instruction to work in our lives. After all, the Bible is our instruction manual for eternal life; learn it well...
"He told many stories in the form of parables, such as this one: "Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he scattered them across his field, some seeds fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate them. Other seeds fell on swallow soil with underlying rock. The seeds sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. But the plants soon wilted under the hot sun, and since they didn't have deep roots, they died. Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants. Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted! Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand." (Matthew 13:3-9) NLT