Psalms 48 – 50
Verse 48:1 sums up what our adoration towards God should be:
The Eternal is great and mighty, worthy of great praise
in the city of our True God, upon His holy mountain.
God is worth of all praise, period. We need to learn to realize that and see how everything works together for the good, even if in the moment it seems bad. My ability to worry has been maxed out the past 13 years and through it all things seem to work out. God has had this perfectly orchestrated all the time and although it has not gone the way I wanted or expected things are still good today.
I think my worry comes from more trying to control the situation more than anything. I think too much and try to analyze each move way before it happens, guess that’s why I am good at chess. But in life that leads to angst and worry, so I am being taught over and over again to stop worrying. God is in control NOT me … the control freak!
Verse 49:17 somberly reminds us the uselessness of following our vanities:
For they cannot take anything with them when they die.
Their fame and glory will not follow them into the grave.
We can’t take it with us but we live like we think we can. We work ourselves to the grave thinking it’s more important to provide than to live. For some reason “providing” gets in the way of all the other major components of family life to the point a week vacation is meant to fix it all. No, we need to focus on our legacy in our children and not in our work because work will end but our children live on.
Verse 50:3 shows the end times:
Our God will come, and He will not enter on a whisper.
A fire will devour the earth before Him;
the wind will storm wildly about Him.
God judged and destroyed the world with water when Noah built the ark. This time God will do the same, but with fire and unfortunately the time is coming soon I fear. So back to the second Psalm, what are we focusing on? Are we hoarding and hunkering down or making sure our friends understand the love of Jesus? That is the key to all this … make our time on this earth matter and do God’s will, not ours!!