The Lord is a great God
Ever since things got back to “normal” post COVID, life has felt like it is whizzing past me. It is so easy to get caught up on the things that are going on around me. It is easy to get caught up on the things that I have going in front of me. We can caught up with the anxiety that the future brings or stuck in the the past with guilt and regret looming over us and the nostalgia of memories of a life we once had before the pandemic. This new ‘normal’ is full of me distraction, anxiety and frustration.
Life can get so busy that one forgets to stop, pause and reflect. There is too much going on.
In busy times like these, God can easily be set aside and forgotten. Life and its cares become big. People and their opinions of us become a defining factor to our identity and how we think. We feel a sense of being in control as we make millions of decision and move to and fro doing thins and that. The world becomes so loud and deafening, and God becomes small and his word is on mute. Then we are surprised in the rush of things that we have forgotten who God is and yet our lives have shown us that we live as though he does not exist.
“For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
The depths of the earth are in his hand,
and the mountain peaks are his.
The sea is his; he made it.
His hands formed the dry land.”
Psalm 95: 3-5
This is God. He is Lord, he is Great - a king above all gods. The depths of the earth are in his hand! Creation belongs to him, he made and formed everything. Our schedules, anxieties, things we deem as important pale in comparison to the Lord and his greatness. By seeing God for who he is, we see the world for what it is, we see ourselves for who we are. Everything falls right into place - under God. The Psalmist gives us perspective, reminds us that in the grand scheme of things life and its worries and cares are all under the sovereign hand of the mighty Lord. All things are under his control.
The psalmist invites us to rejoice with shouts of joy to the Lord, shouts of victory for he as the rock of our salvation have access to the Lord and thus enter in with thanksgiving! In addition, the psalmist calls to to slow down and worship, bow down to God. For we are the people of his pasture, the people under his care. The psalmist humbles us reminds us that the Lord is not to be shoved away in shelf or locked away and forgotten but should ever be front of our minds as we depend on him for all things: salvation, provision and guidance to name a few.
Let us not get caught up with futile pursuits that will only lead us further away from the Lord of all things lest our hearts be hardened and face certain and dire consequences. Let us with humility pursue him and let everything have its place under him.
