The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 67:7,
“God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him.”
The resurrection will bring a whole new paradigm to life. We read of a change all of us who embrace Jesus Christ will experience in the resurrection, new bodies that will be “imperishable”, “glorious” and “raised in power”, a “spiritual body”, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44. We will be changed “in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye” to immortality. In this new paradigm of life we will dwell with God himself, not by faith from a distance, but right within his presence. “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.” Revelation 21:3.
This verse in Psalm 67:7 points to another facet of this paradigm shift to life: “all the ends of the earth will fear him.” The world today seems to be driven by people who live life in anything but fear of God. As such they indulge the sin nature and the resulting consequences are born by not just them but all of us in their path. Criminals, swindlers, crooked politicians that feign public service to embellish their own personal power and wealth, church leaders who do likewise, many who elbow one another out to “get theirs” and so on. Life in the here and now can be quite discouraging. Imagine what life will be like lived with others who fear the Lord and not subject to a dominating sin nature! “He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.” Revelation 21:7-8.
To have such a change in neighbors (and ourselves) sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it?
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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