GOD IS PRESENT - Friday July 21, 2017

REVERBERATIONS  FROM DAVID’S PSALMS

GOD IS PRESENT

Psalm 14:1 “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’”

LORD, YOU MAKE BEAUTIFUL THINGS                         

Most evenings, I sit on the cliffs nearby to see the sun sink into the sea, or drop into the hills and trees out west, over the curve of the island, depending on the time of the year.  The clouds will be full of color with all kinds of imaginative shapes, and the waves just below me often crash so high the spray blocks the brightness of the descending sun.

Every time, words fill my mind and I have to blurt out, “Lord, You make such beautiful things”.

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In Psalm 14, David declares that the person of moral perversity, the fool, says there is no God.  That’s amazing to me.  No way that the intricacies of creation just happened.  Many of our greatest scientists agree that there has to be a Creator.  David goes on to say that men, God’s created beings, have abandoned Him, turning aside, becoming corrupt and don’t even understand who He is and what He has done for mankind.

Much of this Psalm was quoted by Paul in Romans 3 as well, which declares the same things, that we naturally, do not really understand the Lord who created everything.  And, that we all have turned away. Doing good, all we can, is not in man’s normal nature.  “There is none righteous, not even one.” (v. 10)

After declaring us guilty, David has something good to say. “GOD IS PRESENT in the company of the righteous”, (v5) and ends with, “Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion.” (v.7)   And it did! Praise God!  Paul does the same thing after declaring us guilty he says, “But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known.  This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.  There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified, freely, by His grace, through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” (v.21-24)

How great is that.  His righteousness cleanses us by His grace.  It’s free, just like breathing in and out, and taking in the beauty of His creation all around us.