As I spend some time last night with the Lord, I come across Psalm 104, and started reading. It’s a psalm of praise to God for His Creation, for the creatures he has made, and for his provision. I look at this psalm as the Spirit just lifts me up and I see that God is everywhere and everything. He is the very essence of life. He is the great I Am. I see the meaning of that Name throughout this psalm. I also see that He is in charge. Not only did he create all these wonderful things, but he also has command over them. Verse 7: “But at your rebuke the waters fled…” Wow. At His very voice, the waters fled from the sky.
Also, God’s provision is MAGNIFICINT in this Psalm. As I’ve been praying and asking God to help me to trust Him and know His plan and his provision, this just really hits me. Not only does He provide for the streams, but he gives water to the animals, birds, cattle, and people. He has not only given them to us, but also allowed them to grow from the ground, purely, without any problems.
Verses 19-23 are interesting to me. I really do think that this is God showing us that even the things we don’t think about are part of His plan, and He knows what’s going on. But more than anything, I think Verses 27-30 are my prayer for my life right now. I want to be dependent on Him in the sense that I know that I am nothing without Him. I want to depend on His grace to save me, and recognize that every day I wake up is another day He has given me by His Grace.
Why is it that we question God all the time? Why did He do this, why did He do that? Is this theologically correct? We have all these things that we feel like we need to understand about Him, but I think what we really don’t understand is WHO He is. Yes, there are things that may be mind-boggling and challenging to think about, but we must evaluate in what way we are looking at God. Do we see Him for who He is? Or are we putting Him into our human nature?
It really is not overly difficult to see God, we just need to take off our blinders and look at Him for all He is, and when we catch a glimpse of that, fall on our faces because we see that we are so unworthy to be loved by this great God! Then, as He slowly lifts us up from the ground, we must be thankful for the love that He shows us, and recognize all of His provisions.
I chose to depend on the Lord, EVEN if I don’t understand him fully. I chose to praise Him for all the things He has created and has power over, and all that He provides. I chose to take off my blinders and see God for who He is, not bring Him down to an earthly standard. I chose to “sing to the Lord all my life; [to] sing praise to my God as long as I live. May my meditation be pleasing to him as I rejoice in the Lord (vv.33-34)”
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“May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works – he who looks at the earth, and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke”
Psalm 104:31-32
