“Unfailing love and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed! Truth springs up from the earth, and righteousness smiles down from heaven” (Psalm 85:10-11 NLT).
Personifying the divine attributes, the psalmist wrote of a day when unfailing love and truth would finally join together and righteousness and peace would embrace. “Unfailing love” is the translation of the Hebrew word “chesed,” which can be translated “mercy” or “covenantal love.” This is God’s kind of love. It is a sacrificial and lasting love. The result of this union would cause truth to burst like a seed from the earth and righteousness to smile down from the flung open windows of heaven.
Surely the meeting of these divine attributes is fulfilled in Christ! For God’s love and truth intersected in Christ on the cross. God’s truth and holiness put Him there to die in our place and God’s love and mercy were the nails that held Him fast. God’s desire for our righteousness and for peace and reconciliation between God and humanity were met in the Messiah like an embrace, as He tasted death for us. Yet, the Truth sprang from the earth on the third day. He has flung open the windows of heaven, so that righteousness shines down on those who follow Him.
All the divine attributes are met in Christ. The Son of God was crucified, buried and raised on the third day. He is risen! Let all the earth rejoice!
PRAYER: Dear Father, we are thankful that Your love and truth are revealed in Christ Jesus. Because of Him, You have opened up the heavens to us, so that we might know You and become Your adopted children. May we tell the good news of what You have done in Jesus for us. In His name we pray, amen.