We all have a tendency to try to refashion God in an image of our own making, but the God of biblical revelation is the God whom we will someday face.
God’s love is no sentimental or emotive feeling—which can be devastated by the perpetrators of wickedness, or snuffed out by the disappointments of life.
The biblical view not only understands that God is the Judge of the world, but that we, also, must act as God’s regents.
The psalm gives us the assurance that someday we will look back on our current situation and see that, even there, God’s hand was guiding us and leading us.
As Christians we understand that there is a big difference between how things seem in the present and how they look when we take the long view, glimpsing God’s final verdict on human history.
The two doctrines of God’s greatness and God’s goodness are perhaps the most important and fundamental truths we want to instill in our children and, indeed, all Christians.
The righteous judgment of God is one of the great hopes of the Christian. Without God’s judgment, there will be no justice in the cosmos.
This psalm foreshadows the great vision of the new covenant, where men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation will be adopted into the family of God.
The church is the visible sign of God’s footprint in Adam’s world. He is reversing our status, and he is granting us peace.
It is God’s covenant commitment to oppose evil in the world, defeat it, and to establish righteousness on the earth.
In the midst of all of our own historical challenges, with wars spilling out across the globe, it is helpful to remember that God is the Lord of history.
The Old and New Testaments bear witness to these two vital testimonies to God—the external witness of creation and the internal witness of God’s law.
