A National Confession Of Who God Is - Ruminating in the Word of God

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Nehemiah 9:5-6,

"Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you."

This doxology by the Levites begins the prayer of confession of sins and agreement of the nation to serve the Lord. They entered into an agreement by binding themselves to serve the Lord. This transpired in a day when the Israelites gathered together to read the Scriptures for a quarter of the day, and then for another quarter "in confession and in worshiping the Lord their God." Verse 3.

This doxology contains all we need to know of God: Our God is the only Lord. He is the Creator of all there is in the heavens, on the earth and in the seas. We are told it is God who gives life to everything.

Here is where we came from, here is where we derive and find our worth. Here is where we receive our many blessings! This Levitical confession should be ours today, our prayer, the prayer of our nation! To recognize the Lord in this manner is not an establishment of a religion. It is simply a very appropriate and needful expression of reality - an expression that might possibly restore sanity back to the public square in our day!

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!

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