Beloved church of God, hear this royal declaration from Psalm 93:
“The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed, He has girded Himself with strength. Surely the world is established so that it cannot be moved. Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting.” The LORD reigns. Jesus is LORD! The cry that echoes through creation! Let us stand and sing together.
Father God, Your mercy is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the great mountains. Your judgments are a great deep. This is the meditation of a shepherd, trying to express what cannot really be expressed in words. For You are great, O LORD, and greatly to be praised. And Your greatness is unsearchable. The heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. And yet, because of Your merciful condescension, You inhabit the praises of Your people. So, we praise You, O LORD! O Christ! For Your creation, for the world You have established. And we praise You even more, so much more for this: that being clothed with majesty, You put on a garment of flesh that we might be clothed with the garment of salvation. In the name of Your Son, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.
“[But] the floods have lifted up, O LORD. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.” This verse, coming right after such lofty thoughts, seems out of place. Disconnected in a way. The focus shifts. I know that the LORD is clothed with majesty and strength. But the floods, LORD, but the floods. But the floods. Hardly a week goes by—or a day—without our doubts and anxieties rising up, at times like a flood. Then we become disconnected. Our focus shifts away from the Lord. In light of the exceedingly great and precious promises we have been given in the Scriptures, this is a sin to be confessed, and repented of. Join me as we do this now, together.
