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!!
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