Psalm 18:1

New International Version

I love you, O Lord, my strength.

For Meditation

As I sing the song, “I love you Lord…” this morning, I asked myself, Can I truthfully say I love Jesus? Is my love sincere?

David said in Psalm 18:1: “I love you, O Lord, my strength.” How could he confidently say that? Did David mean it?

Then I saw in my mind’s eye a youth in love and how he holds hands with his lover as they walk together all the time, never wanting to part company. I saw how he talks on the phone with her all the time, sending text messages in class or before bed, and how he longs for daybreak so they could be together again.

Then I realized the level of my love for Jesus. Am I like this youth in love, regarding desire and commitment? Is that how I feel when I sing, “I love you, Lord…?” Do I respond to God like this young lover to his girlfriend?

That is the question the Lord wants us to answer this morning as we stand before His Presence in worship. Is your profession of love for Him sincere? Is there intimacy and positive response like our young lover?

Listen to David in a few of his Psalms:

My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek (27:8).

“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water” (63:1).

“As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God” (42:1).

Is that your heart’s effusion as you sing, “I love you Lord…” this morning?

Listen to what John says about loving God in 1 John 5:3.

“In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,” (1 John 5:3).

Now, sing the song again.

How does it sound this time?