Can You Say, “I love the Lord”?

Psalm 116

In this psalm the writer expresses their love for how good God is. Out of these 19 verses I would say that I kept on getting stuck on verse 1.

It says, “I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my please for mercy.” I really just got stuck on the first part of the verse, I Love the Lord…

If I were to ask you do you love the Lord what would you say? If I then proceeded with why, what then would you say?

At the end of John, Jesus was resurrected and was visiting the different disciples. In this particular visit, Jesus was seeing Peter. He asked Peter a question, “Do you love me?” 3 times Jesus asked Peter this as Peter denied Christ 3 times but we see that Peter really loved Jesus (John 21). Do you really love the Lord? A question that needs to ring through our heads and our hearts. Do we really love the Lord? If we do it should be so evident in how we live, how we talk, even to what is expressed in our faces. The psalmist wrote that he loves the Lord because he has heard his cry. God has answered our cry for salvation as Jesus died on the cross for our sin. He first loved us! This is why I love the Lord, because he first loved me and I do not deserve it.

So, Can you say I love the Lord! I hope you can and do, even from the roof tops, you love the Lord.