God reigns! He is active with His creation.....He didn't create it and leave it to itself. No, indeed, He rules....actively!
God is incomprehensible in His fullness. He is righteous and just; these are the foundations of His rule. No other can rightly claim these things. His judgement of wickedness is sure.....sure as a fire that consumes what it meets. His very presence elicits a response from even inanimate things that He has created; the earth trembles and quakes when His presence is near.
How shameful to serve carved images! God alone is to be worshiped. His people know and see His judgments and are gladdened by them. How very comforting it is to know your God, and see Him do all He has said He will do! No pagan god can compare.
His followers are to hate evil as He hates evil. He, alone, is the source of help....delivering the upright and making them happy. True comfort, help, and peace cannot be found anywhere else.
Remember (meditate) His Name (character),.....rejoice and give thanks!
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When I stop and think, as the psalmist does, about God's character......it does indeed cause me to praise Him. There simply is no other. We fashion other 'gods' after our own notions of what we think would be easier to worship, not even realizing what we are doing most of the time. But God, in his great mercy, chose a people, revealing Himself to them, and promised that blessing would spread throughout the earth.....to all peoples and nations. He didn't abandon us when we sinned and rebelled against Him, but He calls us and woos us to come to Him for healing, forgiveness, and grace. I stand in awe that He chose me......
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