The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 101:1,
“I will sing of your love and justice; to you, O Lord, I will sing praise.”
There is something of a movement afoot these days that seeks to disparage any who claim to know anything about God. In an elitism of haughty attitude these folks claim to know more than the rest of us. They say, in a great show of “humility”, that since God is transcendent and we are finite, we really can’t know anything about God. As soon as you think you know something about God, they say, you put him in a box or pigeon-hole him and reduce him to our finite understanding. They distain “propositional” truth and seek to simply have a “discussion” about God. All are invited to participate in their “discussion”, provided we see it their way.
This is not the God I know. The God I know is fearsome and worthy of my reverence and respect. When he says “know this of me” it is my job to know it! To claim the lack of facilities to understand anything of God due to our finitude is not humility. It is an arrogance that rejects God’s revelation and his desire for us to know him. These folks are only willing to accept God on their own terms, not his. God has chosen to reveal himself to us in the pages of Scripture and he tells us to “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”
And what does the word of truth tell us? “… let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight.” Jeremiah 9:24. This is the very thing that the psalmist worships God for. He says he will sing of the Lord’s love and justice. You can’t worship something you claim you can’t know. But I worship what I do know and what I know is that our God is a God of love and a God of justice. How do I know it? Because he has told me so and I worship him for that! Others may desire a discussion about that which they claim they can’t know… but like the psalmist here, I desire to worship what I do know!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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