Worship for Today

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 113:4-6,

"The Lord is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?"

 

The writer of Psalm 113 clearly has the transcendence of our Lord in mind as he exhorts us at the beginning of this psalm to praise him. "From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised." Verse 3. He asks the provocative question, "Who is like the Lord our God...?"

 

Of course the answer is, no one. No one is like the Lord our God. Our God alone is supremely transcendent in his glory and in the splendor of his majesty! The question I have at times is, why does he even give mankind a thought? Why should he care about us at all? This is a big God, magnificent in the perfections of his righteousness and holiness, and me, well, I'm about as imperfect as they come. The writer tells us that the Lord "stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth." As he does so, he does wonderful things for mankind!

 

None of which is more wonderful than his sending of his Son, Jesus Christ, to take the punishment of our sins, to satisfy his own sense of justice, making a way for us. Of Jesus Christ Paul says, "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross!" Philippians 2:6-8.

 

What kind of heart must our Lord have, who is so gloriously transcendent in his splendor and perfections, and yet reaches down to the likes of someone like me?! How could my transcendent Lord take on the very nature of a servant, and that for me?! Breath-taking for me to consider this morning!

 

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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