Psalm 19:11 – Warning! Watch your step please! The Palmist David and the Holy Spirit write these words and thousands of years later this same Spirit of God speaks to us today. Every edict (decree) is feared (in awe) by Creation and rewarded. As a disciple or servant of the LORD, we should seek the same reward.
Good Morning
On a submarine the crew is taught that the submerged ship is completely safe and out of harm’s way when it operates in want is called a “safe operating envelope”. As you know, an envelope is normally rectangle, having a top bottom and two sides. Basically for the submarine the top and bottom pertain to proper depth, not to shallow and not to deep. The sides; not too fast and not to slow, there is still yet another factor and that is to know the surroundings outside the envelope.
The unbelieving world around us is an environment of good and evil, in fact; evil was so prevalent in Noah’s day that God destroyed all of the inhabitants of the earth with that world-wide flood. Now I know you do not remember it since you were like me. “Not there”, but if you’ve not read the events of that day, or if you’ve forgotten some of the detail you will find the read in Genesis 6 through 8 when you have time, please take that historical journey with Noah and his family and animals who were spared.
Genesis 6:5 explains to us that God sees the intentions of mankind and that the thoughts of mankind are to do evil… CONTINUALLY. Now if you are a person of the world you no doubt do not believe this. The reason of your disbelief is because you are outside the safety of the decrees of the LORD, or His safe operating envelope. God’s safe operating envelope is shaped a bit differently than that of the man-made submarine. His has six sides.
“The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul, the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever and the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether” Psalm 19:7-9.
Do you think I am wrong about this? Creation has and is surviving and being rewarded now for over seven thousand years. Yet and because of good and evil, mankind drops off of the planet every seventy or eighty years; Psalm 90:1-17 a Psalm of Moses records our failure to be safe in the edicts of the LORD.
As believers in Jesus Christ we learn to take comfort in God’s protecting decrees, and yes you may be thinking; “shucks man” you’re still going to die like the rest of the world in seventy or eighty years so what’s the point? John 3:16 gives a loud and clear answer, God’s safe operating envelope begins here for those who have, no hope in the rest of His decrees.
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