Trust in the Steadfast Love of God

April 12, 2026

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Pastor Colin Smith - Arlington Heights

Psalm 52 ESV

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
    The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

Your tongue plots destruction,
    like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

You love evil more than good,
    and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah

You love all words that devour,
    O deceitful tongue.


But God will break you down forever;
    he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

The righteous shall see and fear,
    and shall laugh at him, saying,

“See the man who would not make
    God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches
    and sought refuge in his own destruction!”


But I am like a green olive tree
    in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
    forever and ever.

I will thank you forever,
    because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, for it is good,
    in the presence of the godly.

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