Psalm 52:1

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?

The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

Because God loves what is good and just and merciful, evil is an affront to His love. Even mighty men and the world's rulers set themselves against God by taking part in what is wrong. They devise destruction. But their plans will fail.

God's love never ceases. It is never exhausted or spent. It is not vain effort or mortal combat. It cannot be minimized to a method or system or frame of time. His love is powerful, free, and boundless. It endures. And as long as His love endures, good will triumph over evil.

Psalm 111:2

Psalm 111:2

Great are the works of the LORD,

studied by all who delight in them.

Rebellion is the fruit of forgetting God's works (Ps. 106:7), but all who delight in God bring His works to mind, and those people are given hope (Lam. 3:21-23). A true delight in God's works is stimulated by, and leads to, a delight in God Himself, for if one loves the righteous acts He does he must also love the righteous God He is.

The works of God can never be studied to exhaustion because they are great. All who take interest in them contemplate what God has done, and thousands of books have been written to express such things. Dictionaries and encyclopedias are about God's work in life and language, yet even these cannot fully articulate the fullness of meaning and information God has put into the world, much less the universe. Works have been written on laughter, wood, the Grand Canyon, and aerodynamics, yet man still discovers more about these things. George Washington Carver spent endless hours studying the peanut. Thomas Edison tried a thousand different conductors for electricity. Fanny Crosby wrote over 9000 hymns and poems. Neil Armstrong touched the moon. The digits of π are infinite.

We only catch mere glimpses of God when we try to comprehend His works because His works are truly great.

Psalm 50:1

Psalm 50:1

The Mighty One, God the LORD,

speaks and summons the earth

from the rising of the sun to its setting.

God has supreme power over the universe in a way we cannot comprehend. Lest He command a star to shine, it does not shine - it cannot. Not only has God created the earth, but He also commands it. It has its existence because God speaks its existence. It spins and travels only to where God calls it.

The care and command of the Mighty One never rest. He is actively involved in His creation; this is the ultimate denial of Deism. He uses seemingly random and catastrophic acts of the weather to move people from one place to another (see vv. 4-5). "He causes His sun to rise, He sends the rain."1

God's activity in His world is unfathomable. His power none can grasp. "Did He speak the world into existence? Does matter exist apart from Him? Is it still here? Are you still here? Then He is still speaking."2

Notes

1. Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts (Colorado Springs, CO: NAVPRESS, 1988), 102.

2. N.D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2009), 31.

Psalm 49:7, 15

Psalm 49:7, 15

Truly no man can ransom another, 

or give to God the price of his life...

But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,

for he will receive me.

Ransom of a life is far too high a cost for the resources of mortal man. An atheist once declared, "No deity will save us; we must save ourselves." Yet if we were forever separated from God's grace, none could ever be saved at all - by a friend or by himself. The cost is too great.

"But God" is the best news in the Bible. In these two words, hope begins. They mean that we are helpless but He is not, that we are sinful but that He did something about it. That man is not sinless as is God is terrible news. But that God is not sinful or helpless as is man is the greatest news ever.

In His mercy, God ransoms us from the power of death; in His grace, He gives us eternal life. WE are not left without a savior; we are given a Redeemer. Having been delivered from the dominion of darkness, we are accepted as children of light. No evils or powers can stand against us because God is for us (Rom. 8:31). We have been ransomed on Earth; we will be received in Heaven.

Psalm 108:4

Psalm 108:4

I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples;

I will sing praises to you among the nations.

It is the duty and delight of man to give thanks to God. The LORD is the One who is worthy of our thanksgiving, for we exist in Him (Acts 17:28), and all good things come from Him (Jas. 1:17). Everything we possess is from Him (1 Cor. 4:7); therefore, He is the Benefactor of all gifts in all circumstances.

In the demands of what He has given, what He has promised, what He is working, what He has completed, and who He is, our assignment is to praise Him on the earth. For He is worthy, and He is worthy of nothing less than all of our thanksgiving and praise.

And our thanksgiving and praise to Him at all times should be specifically and intentionally focused on reaching the ears of all people in every place with the intent that God be glorified everywhere by everyone. He is the Creator and Giver of everything, and He is worthy.

Psalm 107:9

Psalm 107:9

For he satisfies the longing soul,

And the hungry soul he fills with good things.

All of creation is dependent on God for life and sustenance. Yet there are souls who long for more than living for temporary pleasure, and they are blessed because God fills them (Matt. 5:6). Again, there are souls who have been abused by the ills of this world and long for comfort. It is they that are met by God's grace (Matt. 5:4).

It is not as though God could not satisfy the rich with greater riches. Yet His mercy chooses those who feel they have no alternative but Him. They are in greatest position to be filled because they are most hungry. They are readily met by the Saviour because they desperately need the Saviour.

God is the One who mercifully gives to the poor and clothes the naked. He has no obligation and gives not out of compulsion but out of love. There is no one to aid or assist Him and nothing to add to His kindness. And therefore He is most glorified for His gracious gift, and those who are satisfied by His grace are truly satisfied in His grace. For God Himself is the true satisfaction for every man.