Psalm 36
5 Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your justice like the great deep. NIV
Contemplate on those verses for a bit. Consider the love of the Lord. Can it be contained by the sky? Isn't it greater than the highest mountain? Can not His love reach deeper than the deepest ocean? Indeed, God's love is greater than all of these, but the psalmist imagination was limited to those things he could see in his world. In our day we can see far into the heavens and peer deeply into the inner most parts of an atom, yet God's love is greater even than that. In fact, our human imagination is unable to comprehend the hight, and depth and width and breadth of God's love. (See Ephesians 3:18)
I'm often asked, "How can a scientist believe in God?" To me that is just silly talk. How can you probe into the inner workings of the atom and investigate the complex inter workings of the human body, and not acknowledge that there is one greater than all. There is one greater indeed than mere chance or natural selection, a creator that has designed a most marvelous universe. Indeed, His love reaches to the heavens...
The psalm continues to extols the virtues of the Lord or provides food, drink and shelter to all men. "For you are the one who gives and sustains life." Our God is not only the creator of all things, but He is the sustainer, the one that enables our continuing existence. Some of the environmental doomsday talk is nothing less that a lack of faith in the master designer that created the world and sustains it. Yes, we need to be good stewards of the earth, but no it's not so fragile that we can easily destroy it.
Well, this has all been very interesting, but let's get back to the purpose of the psalm, to praise the name of the Lord, and listen to Third Day sing psalm 36.
Your Love Oh Lord (Psalm 36) - Third Day - Worship Video w. Lyrics
Psalm 36
1 An evil man is rebellious to the core.
He does not fear God,
2 for he is too proud
to recognize and give up his sin.
3 The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful;
he does not care about doing what is wise and right.
4 He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed;
he is committed to a sinful lifestyle;
he does not reject what is evil.
5 O Lord, your loyal love reaches to the sky;
your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 Your justice is like the highest mountains,
your fairness like the deepest sea;
you preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.
7 How precious is your loyal love, O God!
The human race finds shelter under your wings.
8 They are filled with food from your house,
and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.
9 For you are the one who gives
and sustains life.
10 Extend your loyal love to your faithful followers,
and vindicate the morally upright!
11 Do not let arrogant men overtake me,
or let evil men make me homeless!
12 I can see the evildoers! They have fallen!
They have been knocked down and are unable to get up!
The NET Bible
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