Did you read Psalm 89 with me today? It was quite a bit longer than the other Psalms we have had lately!
I loved this acknowledgement of God's power and His personality, right near the beginning:
"O LORD God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You." Psalm 89:8
I like the two things mentioned here--1) no one is mightier than God, and 2) He is ALWAYS faithful. It wouldn't do us any help if we had a mighty god but he was fickle and didn't continue to love and care for us. Or even if we had a faithful god, but he wasn't mighty or able to help us much as he would like to. Are we sometimes putting our MIGHTY and FAITHFUL God into one of these two boxes? Do we believe that He "can," but He doesn't care? Or do we believe that He "cares," but can't?
And then I found this gem:
"Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face." Psalm 89:14
My Study Bible had a note on verse 14, and I would like to share it with you:
"Satan declared that mercy destroyed justice, that the death of Christ abrogated the Father's law. Had it been possible for the law to be changed or abrogated, then Christ need not have died. But to abrogate the law would be to immortalize transgression, and place the world under Satan's control. . . Yet the very means by which Christ established the law Satan represented as destroying it. Here will come the last conflict of the great controversy between Christ and Satan."
The Desire of Ages, by E. G. White, p. 762, 763
God is both--righteous and also just. He is truth--and he is also merciful. And how much we need Him to be ALL of these things!
Spend some time today talking with and drawing closer to your Savior. He is mighty--and He definitely cares for you!
~Susan
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