Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens;
    your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
    your justice like the ocean depths.
You care for people and animals alike, O Lord.
7     How precious is your unfailing love, O God!
All humanity finds shelter
    in the shadow of your wings.
8 You feed them from the abundance of your own house,
    letting them drink from your river of delights.
9 For you are the fountain of life,
    the light by which we see. NLT

”“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” C.S. Lewis

I have a deep love of poetry, but I have to confess that I don’t always understand it. I wonder if sometimes it is best to just let a poem wash over you and hit you with its powerful waves. You may not understand every single part of the work, but you feel its impact on your soul. It’s powerful; visceral even. These thoughts came into my mind as I read this section of Psalm 36. I’m not saying that we can’t analyse it or exegete it. Far from it. But first and foremost may we feel it as a celebration of God’s abundant love and goodness.

”God’s love is meteoric,

his loyalty astronomic,

His purpose titanic,

his verdicts oceanic.

Yet in his largeness

nothing gets lost;

Not a man, not a mouse,

slips through the cracks

How exquisite your love, O God!

How eager we are to run under your wings,

To eat our fill at the banquet you spread

as you fill our tankards with Eden spring water.

You’re a fountain of cascading light,

and you open our eyes to light.” The Message

‘He is better than banquets for hungry men. Let his life arise in thee as a fountain, and ask for the illumination of his light. Serenely sheltered under the wing, or in the house, of God, the soul may look out, unmoved, on ”the wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.” ‘ F.B. Meyer