Garden of Hope: Psalm 89: 1- 18

Friday 20 May 2011

Psalm 89: 1- 18

"I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. For I said, "Stead fast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness." You have said , " I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant: 'I will establish you offspring forever, and build a throne for all generations." Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord, a God to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him? O Lord God of hosts who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you? You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them. You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them. The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon, joyously praise you name. You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you. Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face, who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted. For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted . For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy one of Israel."

When I was reading this, this morning in the warmth of the sun light on my face, I was humbled by the words of the Psalm. It is astonishing to stop for just a moment and look at our world and all of Gods creation. We see the Mountains high and the sea below, the sky and the land. We can only be amazed at His handy work. But at the same time be humbled at the fact that God creator of all, knows me, one person out of all history, and knew me before I was ever formed in the womb. What am I to do, but to only "sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations." I pray that I will "walk, O Lord, in the light of your face, who exult in your name all the day"

1 comment:

AndraLea Rose said...: Thanks for the reminder Becca!; 12 June 2011 at 20:47

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Psalms 8

O Lord, our Lord, how majectic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babies and infants, you hve established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the advenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man to be mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yes you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominon over the works of you hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the path of the sea. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalms 1

Blessed in the man who walks not in the councel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the Lord and on his law he meditaes day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yeilds its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all he does, he prospers. This wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the was of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.