Priceless

Psalm 36:7,8 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.

Have you ever called anything you own “priceless?”  The stuff we have is not priceless, but only the people we love and the relationships with those people.

When we experience God’s love, it’s like one of those “ah-ha” moments where we realize the true worth of the love of God that never fails.  And the only way we can really experience that love is to be in a place where we  need refuge, run to the shadow of his wings, and see his love hovering over us.

It’s so true when people say we don’t realize the worth of things until those things are in jeopardy of being lost.  I lived in a big house and assumed I’d live there forever, but circumstances dictated otherwise.  That house had a hold of my heart, and it broke when we lost the place where we lived.  I realized then the value of a home and the blessing of having a safe place in which to live.

God and his love is worth far more than a home, gold, or fame.  And there will be times when we need refuge from the storm.  And under his wings is the only place that we will find it.

There is abundance there, and I love the last phrase of this passage, that he gives us drink from his “river of delights.”

Wow…that’s priceless.