The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad;
(Psalm 97:1).
Why do the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Our God is in heaven;
he does whatever pleases him.
But their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
(Psalm 115:2-4)
The psalmist speaks of God as his champion, the ruler of everything. He is the real God who lives in heaven--not some hunk of shiny metal some human made.
As I’ve often longed for the personal God that Jesus promises, I admit that I forget to marvel that there is a Champion who is ruled by no one, who cannot quite be understood and can never be coerced.
That’s the God who watches over us. I don’t always remember it. I can’t always feel it. I almost never understand Him. But the point of the passage is that God doesn’t answer to me or any other created thing. We answer to him.
That’s comforting, I suppose.
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How refreshing for someone to admit they don't understand God, and that He can't be fully understood. So many human thoughts and motives are presumptuously imposed on God. NJM
ReplyDeleteMNJ, I went to school for many years to come to that insight. Of course, because of my schooling, it takes me two or three paragraphs to simply say, "I don't know." :).
ReplyDeleteAin't education grand! NJM (or MNJ, whatever)
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