Worship for Today: God makes us fit for a new order of things!

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 7:9,
 
"O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure."

 

Living in the world with its collective sin nature is often a daunting place to be. Populated with people dominated by a sin nature that expresses itself in the way they treat one another, the greed, the lies, the deception, the unfairness can often be a struggle to live with. Political seasons often seem to be so characteristic of this. As those who exploit others and seem to get away with it, as those who hold positions of responsibility and use those very positions to feed their greed and aggrandizement and seem to get away with it, we often ask, where is the justice of it all? When those who would introduce our children to drugs or sexual immorality, endanger our persons and property through criminal activity seem to get by without paying the penalty, it can be discouraging. When we learn a murder suspect had been recently paroled early from prison after a previous string of felonies, we struggle.

 

I sense the cause of David's plea to the Lord in some of this. He seeks the Lord's judgement for these things, and a great desire for a better environment to live in, one absent the violence of the wicked and security for the righteous. Such is life in this fallen world.

 

How wonderful it is the Lord will bring us this relief! We are told that in the resurrection, "'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. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.' He who was seated on the throne said, 'I am making everything new!' Then he said, 'Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.' He said to me: 'It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. 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.'"

 

How wonderful we have an eternal life that will be free from the discouragements this sinful and fallen world brings! More importantly, how wonderful it is the Lord has made me - a sinner who has certainly contributed as much as many to the discouragement this world brings - fit for his home in heaven! How wonderful is that?!

 
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!

Trevor Fisk
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