Friday, August 17, 2007

Psalm 113

Wow! I'm not sure why I don't remember the power in this psalm. Here's some thought from the folllowing passages:
 Vss 5-6: God is so far above us, so much superior to us, that it is a humiliation, an insult, to His nature to even cast a glance our way. Now consider the afront to His nature to listen to our prayers. Next ponder how awful it was to lower himself into our "cesspool" and join the insignificant in the mire. Then he allowed that which the very existence is appalling to God's nature snuff out his physical life; this was the gravest of compounded insults.
Versses 7-8: what God did next was unbelievable. He took that puddles of insulting sewage called humanity, and offered us a place on his throne. Swill covered in royal adornment.
Verse 9: The change of heart that God brings into our lives is like the joy of a mother of many children. What is so wonderful about this is that our righteousness is so far below God that we are infertile and barren.
It took me 15 minutes to record my thoughts, and about 60 seconds to read the psalm.
Stuart

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