Great Is the Lord

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psalm 145:1-9

 

December 16, 2022

 

Great Is the Lord

A Song of Praise. Of David.

I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.  Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.  Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.  One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.  On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.  They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds,
and I will declare your greatness.  They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.  The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The Lord is good to all,
and his mercy is over all that he has made.

 

We who by faith and grace that only God can give have entered into Christ shall be the ones who will extol the Lord our God and bless His name forever.  What a blessing to serve and praise our God, for His ways are unsearchable.  To know that you have been a part of seeing that the next generation shall commend the works to another.  That your grandchildren will declare God’s mighty acts.  That they will speak of God’s mighty acts in their parents and grandparents and now in their lives.  

 

What a blessing it is to know that they will be witnesses of God’s faithfulness, His mighty acts, and steadfast love.  But if only we who follow Christ can grasp that the Lord is good to all, and His mercy is over all He has made.  I sometimes act as if He only loves those who have bowed their knee to His will, but that is not in keeping with the Scripture's teaching.  In the gospel of John 3:16-18, we find these truths; “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”  

Now my calling and yours is to as we go witness what Jesus and our God, His Father, and ours have done for all, who will believe and act on that belief.  So in closing let me share that you nor I nor anyone on planet earth knows who is condemned, so as you go share by your life a testimony. 

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice