Faithful Lord
Psalm 145:17 NIV
“The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all he does.”
No matter what happens with this election in America, or
what chaos may take place as a result of the contested voting system, God is
still on the throne. He is still completely sovereign over all things. He has
all things under his command. His will for us will be accomplished, no matter
what.
No human being can thwart God’s purposes or his divine will.
He puts rulers in place, both good and bad ones. The prophecies of Scripture
are being fulfilled and they will be fulfilled. So, we need to trust the Lord
with the results and focus our attention on what is eternal, not on what is of
this earth.
We, as God’s people, also need to put our trust fully in God
and not in human beings. The Scriptures warn much against us putting our hope
in other humans or in princes (rulers) to save us. God/Jesus is to be our only
Savior. Man cannot save us from what is coming.
But our Lord is completely faithful in all that he does. He
has had a plan for our lives even before he created the world. And that plan is
that we bow down to him and that we worship him, and that we give him our honor
and our praise, and that we follow him in obedience. And he promises us life everlasting
with him. And we can believe him.
In Truth
Psalm 145:18 NIV
“The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.”
Truth is something that seems to be very scarce these days.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone tells the truth anymore. There are so many lies,
so many deceptions, so much disinformation, fakery and twisting of truth that
it takes much discernment of the Spirit of God to sort through all the lies to
get to the truth.
Truth is something that God honors. But he hates lies. I
agree with him. He not only hates lies, but he sees right through them, for we
can never fool God, even though some people try or think that they can. Some people
may be able to fool other people, but God knows the difference. No one can get
away with lying to God.
If we want to be in relationship with God – Father, Son
(Jesus Christ), and Holy Spirit – then we need to call on him in truth. We must
repent of our sins, turn from them, and turn to the Lord to follow him in
obedience to his will and to his ways. Fakery will not fly with him!
We must be those who follow what the Scriptures teach us,
and we must not be man followers who dilute the gospel to make it more
appealing to human flesh. Jesus said to come after him we must deny self and die
daily to sin and follow (obey) him. If we don’t, we don’t have eternal life
with him (Lu 9:23-26; cf. Rom 8:1-17; 1 Jn 1:5-9).
Fear Him
Psalm 145:19 NIV
“He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;
he hears their cry and saves them.”
To fear God is to honor him as the Holy God that he is. It
is to respect, revere and obey him. It is to do what he says and to not ignore
him, and it is to not go our own way. And it is to worship him by giving our
lives to him as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to him (Rom 12:1-2).
He fulfills our desires, because then our desires are his
desires, not the desires of the flesh. We want to be rescued from slavery to
sin. We don’t want to savor the sin. We don’t want to live in it any longer.
Our desire is to walk in freedom and in holiness and in God’s righteousness.
We want to please our Lord in all that we do because we love
him, and we are so thankful for his love and grace to us. We aren’t trying to
earn our own salvation, but we are walking in the salvation that our Lord
provided for us when he took our sins upon himself and he put them to death on
that cross.
Love Him
Psalm 145:20 NIV
“The Lord watches over all who love him,
but all the wicked he will destroy.”
To love our Lord is to obey him. If we don’t obey him, as a
matter of practice, then we don’t love him. And we don’t know him (1 Jn 2:3-6).
To love him is to choose his choices. It is to do his will.
It is to be not only hearers of the word, but it is to be doers of the word,
who put the word of God into practice in our daily lives. It is to live in him
and him in us, and it is to abide in his word and to have his word abide in us
(Jn 15:1-11).
If we are not loving the Lord, because we are not willing to
obey him and to abide in him and to have his word abide in us, then we can’t
claim any promises of Scripture with regard to those who love him or regarding
those who know him. So, we must always read the promises of Scripture in
context to see who they apply to.
By contrasting those who love the Lord with those who are
wicked, this is showing that to love God is to not live in wickedness, to not
make sin our practice. For those who make sin their practice, who are walking
according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit, they will die in their
sins. They will not have eternal life with God (Gal 5:16-21; Eph 5:3-6; Gal
6:7-8).
But to us who are walking according to the Spirit and not
according to the flesh, who are loving God, who are obeying him, and who are
putting the deeds of the flesh to death, we have eternal life with God. We are
saved from our sins. The Lord is watching over us (Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-17; Eph
4:17-24; 1 Jn 1:5-9; Lu 9:23-26).
Words
and music by Tommy Walker
Jesus,
be near to me
Let
me know You are here
How
I need You, how I need You
To
reveal Yourself to me
Through
Your unchanging truth
Through
the breath of Your Spirit
In
my questions and pain
Whisper
words of Your love
Always
the same…
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