Psalm 8:3-4a “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained. What is man that You are mindful of him?
These last few weeks, multiple message sources and varied biblical studies have reveal divinely coincidence of calling us to reflect on how infinite Creator God is in power and majesty. Living in a created material world, we tend to forget that there is an Almighty Creator that is sovereign in every aspect of His reign and rule of His creation. As Job was brought to this reality by God in Job 38:3-5 saying, “Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know!” God was saying, Surely, we do not know! The finite cannot fathom the depths of the infinite. God explains in Isaiah 55:8-9, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” When we stop and take account of ourselves by our Maker, how do we compare to His perfection in every ways?
The prophet of God tells us in Isaiah 6:1-5, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Do we see ourselves as ruined, undone, or dissolved in unworthiness before our just and holy Lord God Almighty because of our sinful thoughts, words and actions of doubt, selfish pride and rebellion against Him and His holy Moral Laws for our life? Just look at the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:3-17 and the explanation about them from Bible commentator Matthew Henry, [1]“You shall have no other gods before Me.” Is there anything between His face and yours? They are idols. [2] “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.” John 4:24 explains that, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
[3] “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. - We take God’s name in vain, [a] By hypocrisy - do not depart from iniquity, [b] By covenant-breaking - perform not to the Lord our vow to follow and serve, [c] By using the name of God lightly and carelessly, and without any regard to its awful significance - mentioning the name of Almighty God frivolously, or any of his attributes without any just occasion for it, or due application and without due consideration of mind to it, but as a by-word, to no purpose at all, or to no good purpose. [d] By false swearing – to swear by his name. But affronting him, instead of doing him honor, if they called Him to be witness to a lie. [e] By profanation of the forms of invective foul language, insults, swearing, cursing or any of those things whereby God makes himself known, His word, or any of His institutions; when they are either turned into charms and spells, or into jest and sport, the name of God is taken in vain. Have we done these once, twice or a million times? it's not okay.
Let's continue this message on God and us in the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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