Middle of the month, middle of the week. Almost middle of the day, but whatever. I’m sorry I’ve been away. Just stuff going on, and me not making stuff go on either.
I was going to keep going down this streak of doing nothing for the reason of everything… Until I took a look at today’s Scriptures.
Psalm 47
God Is King over All the Earth
TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
1 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
2 For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.
3 He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
4 He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
Middle of the week, sure, but it’s also the middle of Holy Week. Although it’s the second half of this week that’s heavier, people are already starting to settle down, travel – that is, if they haven’t travelled already, to beat the traffic.
Here, however, we’re faced with a Psalm that has us praising and worshipping God – clapping our hands, singing with loud songs of joy. I suppose it’s a natural thing for us in the body of Christ, especially when the Psalmist would have us remember – today, Holy Wednesday, of all days – of how our God is Lord Most High, great King over all the earth (and the heavens, if I may add).
Before we recall the account of Jesus Christ being pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, we’re reminded, here, of how He has subdued people, and how nations are under His feet.
But it all comes together, in a way, because before we remember the punishment (that brought us peace) being upon Him, and before we remember how we are healed by His stripes… we’re reminded, here, of how before any of all this, He has already chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob (eventually His body), whom He loves.
Indeed, we clap our hands and we sing for joy! Why? For this great and glorious Lord Most High, this infinite and eternal King who reigns over all the earth – His plans are obviously higher than our own, His thoughts are naturally greater than ours – This great and glorious God loves us greatly, gloriously, not merely thinking of us but choosing our heritage for us generations before He executed His ministry of reconciliation. For me, right there, that just opens up another perspective as to how He loves us with an everlasting love.
Praise Him in the heavens, praise Him forever!
5 God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
8 God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
9 The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
To the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Three in One, and One in Three:
Blessed be Your Holy Name, forever and ever.
You are our Redeemer, You are our Rock.
Through Christ, Your only Begotten Son, born of the Virgin Mary, we are overflowing with comfort for the past.
We are kept in peace in the present, and filled with hope for the future, and beyond.
We are bold to claim this, Father, for through Christ, we have been rescued from total erasure and oblivion.
For Jesus grew as one of us, lived as one of us, proclaiming the Truth of the Kingdom.
In the fullness of time, He lay His life down as a sacrifice.
He became sin completely, and therefore took the complete wages of sin, dying the death we deserved.
He did this, that we who would come to believe in Him would become His righteousness, and would therefore receive His eternal Life.
Jesus took the cup and drained it down to the dregs, and when there was no death left to take, He came back to life – resurrected.
And we are reminded and convicted of our righteousness and life, here in this reality – for after His death and resurrection, He ascended into heaven.
When He ascended into heaven, the Holy Spirit descended, and now we speak, as the disciples spoke – of the wonderful works of God!
To the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Three in One, and One in Three:
Blessed be Your Holy Name, forever and ever!
Indeed, we sing praises to God, praises to the King of all the earth! Praise be to the One who reigns over the nations, the One who sits on His holy throne;
Join in all creation in proclaiming the greatness and glory of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!
Praise, glory, honor, respect and worship to our Almighty Father, to Christ our Savior, and to the Holy Spirit!
To the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Three in One, and One in Three:
Blessed be Your Holy Name, forever and ever!
Well, there’s a Psalm. We’re told to sing a new song and, well, that was more of a new… Psalm.
I’m just thankful that no matter how I’m distracted with other things, or no matter how things just happen around me, or – and this is worst of all – I know things have to be done, but I’m holding off on them for other things I’m mistakenly prioritizing (pertaining to comfort and pleasure more than that productivity I claim to make such a big deal out of); No matter how I’m doing nothing, God continues to be everything. And, slowly but surely, it’s all getting to me. Working in the last bastions of stubbornness that lay claim to my being.
God be praised, because no matter how I don’t see anything of value, He is making ALL things work for my good…
…and all I can do, first and foremost, is to give thanks.
Oh, in my giving thanks, may I move. May I remember that in giving thanks to God, I place my trust in Him, and as I place my trust in Him, I continue to see reasons to give Him thanks.
Oh, may I be brought back to flowing. The times are short, the stakes are high.
May I be brought back to flowing. To thanking God. To trusting in Him.
And may our God be praised to the maximum in all of it.
To the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Three in One, and One in Three:
Blessed be Your Holy Name, forever and ever!
Halleluyah, Hosanna, Amen, Amen!
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