Worship for Today: God's judgment.

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Ecclesiastes 1:13,

 

"I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men!"

 

Whatever Solomon references when he speaks of the "burden God has laid on men", it speaks to the issue of sinful man suffering the consequences of turning from God. Solomon may have been observing that knowledge requires a heavy burden to attain, that it is simply not easy for man to acquire, or it might have been the conclusion of the matter Solomon came to: life under the sun is a futile affair. Both come from God's judgment of man in the garden of Eden.

 

This points to one of God's essential qualities, his justice. In Jeremiah 9:24 we read. "I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight." Although Adam and Eve were given fair warning from God, they nevertheless turned from him. The consequences of this are simply immeasurable. God is to be feared, he is to be revered and he is not to be trifled with. Mankind has reaped the consequences - just as God had warned him.

 

Such is our God. He is straight forward, unambiguous. Just as all has happened as he said it would in the past, so all yet to come will happen just as he has said it will.

 

Although the consequences of man's sin are immeasurable, God's love for us is not. It's height, its depth, its length and its width is measured in the horrific death of his Son, Jesus Christ, to secure our pardon from God's justice, to make a way for us to become his children with a rich inheritance we can look forward to.

 

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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