Enduring Steadfast Love in Psalm 136 and Proverbs 3:3-4

Steadfast Love Psalm 136; Proverbs 3:3-4

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. ES V Psalm 136:1 2

Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:3 4

to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:5 6

to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever; the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:7 8

the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:9 10

and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures forever; with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:11 12

to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever; and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:13 14

but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:15 16

to him who struck down great kings, for his steadfast love endures forever; and killed mighty kings, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:17 18

Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures forever; and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:19 20

and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever; a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever. ES V Psalm 136:21 22

It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever; and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures forever; ES V Psalm 136:23 24

he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever. ES V Psalm 136:25 26

What is steadfast love? Steadfast love is a trust and faithfulness that people pledge to and expect from each other in a relationship.

Gods steadfast love is the reason it all happened, is happening, and will continue to happen.

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Gods steadfast love is His loyalty.

You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. ES V Exodus 15:13

Help me, O Lord my God! Save me according to your steadfast love! ES V Psalm 109:26

the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. ES V Jeremiah 31:3

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, ES V Deuteronomy 7:9

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. ES V Deuteronomy 7:13

You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. ES V Deuteronomy 7:14 15

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. ES V Matthew 7:7 8

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. ES V John 13:34 35

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ES V John 15:12 13

You are my friends if you do what I command you. ES V John 15:14

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. ES V John 15:15

But someone will say, You have faith and I have works. Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ES V James 2:18

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. ES V James 2:26

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. ES V Proverbs 3:3 4

Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and of people. NR SV Proverbs 3:3 4

eel: a masculine noun meaning intelligence, good sense. The Complete Word Study Dictionary: Old Testament

Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God. ES V 1 Chronicles 22:12

Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed. ES V 1 Chronicles 22:13

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. ES V John 16:13

for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. ES V 2 Timothy 1:7

The question is do we have a proper relationship with God, as defined by God, found only with Christ, through Christ, and in Christ, the living Word?

An improper relationship, as defined by God, results in bad-sense and no favor of God or man.

Loyalty to God results in wisdom and understanding from God!

Plainly, loyalty to God results in the gifting of His favor and god-sense. Disloyalty, therefore, leads to a lack of favor and bad-sense.

Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. ES V Job 17:4

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened. HC SB Romans 1:21

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. ES V Proverbs 19:11

How much in Gods steadfast love has He forgiven of me? Am I willing to extend and obey God s own command to forgive and be forgiven?

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. ES V James 1:19 20

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ES V James 1:22 23

For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. ES V James 1:24 25

Hearers forget the Word, doers act on the Word they hear. Am I a hearer or doer?