Thank Him for being Him
You ever take time to thank God just for being who He has decided to be?
That's what Psalm 75 is.
Psalm 75:1 (ESV) We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.
No petition, no thankfulness for what God has individually brought about in the Psalmist's life. Just acknowledgement that God is holy and just in every way. That there is no help apart from Him. That He is going to bring recompense on the wicked and shelter to those who hid in Him.
God is in charge:
Psalm 75:6–7 (ESV) 6 For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up, 7 but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
And then almost as soon as it starts... the Psalm ends with more praise:
Psalm 75:9–10 (ESV) 9 But I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
What an interesting way to come to the Lord. No personal agenda. No long list of requests. And its not that we shouldn't present our requests to God, we should. The Bible tells us to. But what I love about this journey through the Psalms is that sometimes we need to approach God for who He is and what He does apart from our subjective reality. He is always good, righteous true and just. He is God and we are not.
This is why we need to read through the Bible. Left to ourselves we will cherry pick the parts we like and never let the Word have authority and speak to our lives. This is why we need to sing different kinds of songs from different generations. They tell us about God from an entirely different perspective.
Let us go to Him and thank Him... just for being Him.
Amen.
That's what Psalm 75 is.
Psalm 75:1 (ESV) We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.
No petition, no thankfulness for what God has individually brought about in the Psalmist's life. Just acknowledgement that God is holy and just in every way. That there is no help apart from Him. That He is going to bring recompense on the wicked and shelter to those who hid in Him.
God is in charge:
Psalm 75:6–7 (ESV) 6 For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up, 7 but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
And then almost as soon as it starts... the Psalm ends with more praise:
Psalm 75:9–10 (ESV) 9 But I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
What an interesting way to come to the Lord. No personal agenda. No long list of requests. And its not that we shouldn't present our requests to God, we should. The Bible tells us to. But what I love about this journey through the Psalms is that sometimes we need to approach God for who He is and what He does apart from our subjective reality. He is always good, righteous true and just. He is God and we are not.
This is why we need to read through the Bible. Left to ourselves we will cherry pick the parts we like and never let the Word have authority and speak to our lives. This is why we need to sing different kinds of songs from different generations. They tell us about God from an entirely different perspective.
Let us go to Him and thank Him... just for being Him.
Amen.
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