Though The Mountains Be Shaken

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken...

I could be flippant, LORD, and say that that’s a line straight out of a mushy romance novel or some old time theater script. I know better. Coming from you, Father, it is the sweetest expression of your love and faithfulness to your people:

Isaiah 54:10 (NIV)
“’Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’ says the LORD, who has compassion on you.”

It is perfectly beautiful because your faithfulness is perfect:

Deuteronomy 7:9 (NIV)
“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.”

It is a faithfulness that recognizes the frailty and imperfection of flesh. It affords grace when even the most nimble feet stumble in the minefield of sin:

2 Timothy 2:13
“If we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.”

We understand, Father, that unfaithfulness on our part has its consequences. No matter, we also know your love remains. You are faithful. You are holy and faithful. Holiness and faithfulness, they are frightfully awesome to comprehend:

Isaiah 46:11
“...What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.”

Loving you back, worshiping you, adoring you, being faithful to you, serving you. If we sacrificed our all we would still not measure up to your faithfulness and love. How can we outgive a God who has spared nothing, not even his one and only Son, to be true to mere created beings who even have the nerve to thumb their noses at the purity of his affections?

Father, let your glory be magnified on earth as it is in heaven.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name, I pray. Amen.

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