God Says!

# 45 2019 Dev. Psalm 75:2,3. God Says! Read all of Ps.75. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw Gremar and I closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.

Ps. 75:2,3 “You say, “I choose the appointed time;  it is I who judge with equity.
³ When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.”

Psalm 75 is the third Psalm of a series of five introductory Psalms to book three of the Psalter.  The themes are: rededication, God’s care for his people, and this Psalm, reassurance. It is a song of two stanzas bracketed with thanksgiving, v. 1 and vs. 9,10. The first stanzas, vs 2-5 is God speaking: God is in control of time, He is the judge, He holds the world in his hands, He warns the arrogant and the wicked, “do not speak so defiantly.”

Today we are experiencing the defiance of the arrogant. What is happening today borders on a serious attempt to brainwash our country into unrealistic environmental programs and social programs that limit our choices.

The second stanzas, vs 6-8 is Israel confirming God’s control of the world and its people. We are not to exalt each other, “it is God who judges”, He is the one who “brings one down, He exalts another.” His hand is against the wicked of the earth.

As good as our economy is and as low the unemployment is there is still much to be concerned about politically. We were at a church service the other day where the pastor blamed the divisions in our county partly on the church and on Christians: “The church has not stood up for the values of Scripture and Christians have not always lived them.” We tend to agree judging by what we see published on social media. We all need to go back to practicing what we preach and open our ears, our minds and hearts to the Word of God: “I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge with equity. When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.” Thanks be to God; He is still in control and like the Psalmist we thank Him and praise Him, He will judge the wicked and commend the righteous. 

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