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Psalm 75

Started by Al Moak, June 22, 2003, 08:07:36 PM

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Al Moak

Psalm 75

Who gets the credit when we do something right?  And who gets blamed when we do something wrong?  Finally the most important question - do you realize where you really are?  The answers to these questions are pretty much common to us all: we take the credit for what's right, we give the blame to someone else for what's wrong, and we dwell in our own little world!

But the problem is that the answers we give often reflect some seriously wrong attitudes!  For one thing, we need to be lots more aware that this world we live in isn't ours - it's God's. And we need very much to remember that He's an omniscient and omnipresent God - which means that He's right here observing everything we think, say, and do.  Not only so, but if we succeed in anything, it's because God has graciously helped us.  If we fail, we fail either because we went about it the wrong way or because we didn't depend upon Him (or maybe weren't even doing His will!). 

Considering these things, we very much need to remember that there really is a time coming when He's going to judge absolutely everyone.  As the psalmist says here, "For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup (the cup of judgement), and the wine is red; it is fully mixed, and He pours it out; surely its dregs shall the wicked of the earth (all who boast in themselves) drain and drink down." 

In view of this coming judgement, His Word tells us that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," (Ps. 111:10).  It is far better for each of us to do as the psalmist tells us he's going to do.  He says - and we should say with him - "But I will declare forever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob."  In other words, we must boast only of God's good works when things go right.  We must also confess to Him our sins and failings when things go wrong.  And, finally, we should walk before Him in His world with reverence for the God Who is there and Who owns it all.


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