Approachable Jesus

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

January 22, 2026

Approachable Jesus

He remembered us in our weakness.

His faithful love endures forever.

Psalm 136:23 

There are twenty-six verses in Psalm 136. Each verse ends with, “His faithful love endures forever.” In this Psalm, the psalmist took twenty-six verses to plumb the depths of God’s covenant love. The first three verses call Israel to worship God. The next six verses extol God as their Creator. The next sixteen verses praise God’s redemptive love that brought the Jews through the Exodus, from a life of slavery in Egypt, and established them in the Promised Land. The psalmist then closed with a reaffirmation of his call to worship.

Eugene Peterson, in his translation of 2 Corinthians 3, wrote, “God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone.” I believe the psalmist would agree. Too often our visual image of worshipping God is influenced by a wooden cross between two brass candlesticks on a wooden altar as opposed to Peterson’s living, personal presence. Chiseled stone or wood and brass do not invite the intimacy that is approachable. But God wants us to approach Him. He calls us to cast our burdens on Him and that He keeps our tears in His bottle and that He is for us! God wants us to affirm, in the words of a popular praise song, “I am a child of the Most-High God, and the Most-High God is for me.” (Ben Fuller, Who I Am, 2022)

My Takeaway: I am blessed in this season of my life to worship in a setting where there are many ways to express that I am in the living personal presence of God. And I am finding I am taking some of those expressions into my daily life and they are helping me stay in God’s grace for today.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2026 by Alex M. Knight

 

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