Monday, November 10, 2008

Worship for Today: God is our God and guide!

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Psalm 48:14,
"This God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end."
 
As an expression of their worship of the Lord following a military threat Israel faced, the Sons of Korah acknowledged the Lord's hand in the deliverance of Mount Zion. "When kings joined forces, when they advanced together... you destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind." Verses 4-7. As a result, in meditating on God in his temple, they recognized the wonder God had made of Jerusalem. To consider her ramparts, her citadels was to acknowledge how wonderful the Lord was that enabled the Israelites to gain the victory.
 
In the closing verse, the Sons of Korah make the statement, "This God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end." Although we know that Israel eventually turned her back on God and spurned her Messiah, it was not because God had forsaken her, it was that Israel had forsaken their God.
 
Today, as members of God's kingdom, we likewise acknowledge that God is our God forever, our guide even to the end. The wonder of it all is that God is willing, desirous to be our God. It could have been that God just simply had no use for members of a fallen race who had turned their backs on him in sin and rebellion. But God loved us so that he sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. In an act of kindness and mercy that escapes grasping its fullest, God made a way for us! He has redeemed us from his own judgment for our sins and is now willing and eager to be our guide, "even to the end." What a wonderful God this is! 
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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