Tag: A chapter a day

“He will be victorious.”

More certain than the sun coming up tomorrow morning, or even your next breath –the Lord of Hosts will be victorious.

“Let them see that this is your doing, that you yourself have done it, LORD.”

This ought to be the supreme desire of every true child of God: to know Him and to make Him known. To underline, with his life as it were, even one little letter in one small sentence in the grand narrative of the God who is righteous and upright redeeming a world that is sinful and fallen.

“My heart is confident in you, O God; no wonder I can sing your praises with all my heart!”

The fact that there is a God in the universe is remarkable, and yet we remark about it too little.

But the fact that God has revealed his righteous character to us so that we can have total confidence in him–now that is truly something to sing about!

“Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die. The wind blows, and we are gone—as though we had never been here….Let all that I am praise the LORD.”

All that I am. I am not much. I am here for only a brief time. And yet I’m very important to God.

All that I am, given to all that He is, will make my life all God ever planned it to be.

“I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. I hate all who deal crookedly; I will have nothing to do with them. I will reject perverse ideas and stay away from every evil. I will not tolerate people who slander their neighbors. I will not endure conceit and pride. I will search for faithful people to be my companions.”

Living daily in a way that pleases God is not just a nice idea. There are things to do. Things not to do.

“No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do! All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name.”

There is none, indeed.

The God of the universe is the God of the Bible.

The God of the Bible is the Lord.

The Lord is my God.

“Help him to defend the poor, to rescue the children of the needy.”

This is what we are to do as the children of God on earth. This is how we are to be. Aren’t being and doing the same thing?

“Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—this is God.”

If God were here on the earth, he would be a father to the fatherless and a defender of widows. He would be full of compassion, as Jesus was.

But God is not here now, so his desire is to fill us with the spirit of his son so that we may be a father to the fatherless…”

“You take care of the earth and water it, making it rich and fertile. The river of God has plenty of water; it provides a bountiful harvest of grain, for you have ordered it so.”

This psalm is not a tribute to Mother Nature; it is a praise to the God and Father of all that is.

“God has spoken plainly, and I have heard it many times: Power, O God, belongs to you; unfailing love, O Lord, is yours. Surely you repay all people according to what they have done.”

There are in life foundational truths. I use the word foundational because—if they are not true—then nothing is true.

God is Almighty. God is a loving God and a faithful God. Each of us must one day stand before God and give an account. Foundational.