The devotional - 1488 - The Perfect Attributes of God

The Devotional – 1488 – The Perfect Attributes of God

Psalm 119:89-96 – Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven. Your faithfulness endures to all generations; You established the earth, and it abides. They continue this day according to Your ordinances, for all are Your servants. Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction. I will never forget Your precepts, For by them You have given me life. I am Yours, save me; For I have sought Your precepts. The wicked wait for me to destroy me, but I will consider Your testimonies. I have seen the consummation of all perfection, but Your commandment is exceedingly broad. 

Comments and Challenges

After discussing the Creative Power of God in the latter part of chapter one of Hebrews, the writer goes on to say in chapter two; Hebrews 2:1-4 that to neglect creation is to neglect salvation. How should we escape judgment if we neglect a so great salvation. One of the very first rejections of believing in God is to reject the Law, the Testimony, the Statutes, the Commandment, the Precepts, the fear of the LORD and the Judgments of God in Creation.

The one thing, yet of many that run through my mind about the writer of Psalm 119 is how he clings to the pillars of creation, or the attributes that reveal the Character of God. How awesomely these keep him focused. Are you focused today? Can you say in your soul? “Forever, O LORD, Your Word is settled in heaven”. How soul gripping is that statement to you? Only God can make a change in the Statutes that control the heavens and the earth, are you not rejoicing that mankind can do nothing to effect or affect Creation? To global warming we can confidently say – Bah Humbug!

Yet we see through time that His faithfulness endures to all generations; He established the earth and it “stands” the earth will not be moved by any; only by God if He so chooses. An ordinance is a statute; David says in Psalm 19:8 that statutes have the ability to rejoice the heart. When I consider the statutes that hold the stars in space and now I am reminded of a hymn and my heart rejoices.

He’s Everything to Me – In the stars His handiwork I see, on the wind He speaks with majesty, though He rules over land and sea, what is that to me? I will cling to the Good News, for this has a personal place for me in my past; Surely He came to set all peoples free – Even me! Till by FAITH I met Him face to face, and I felt the wonder of His GRACE (it was then) that I knew the He was more than just (a god); He is God, the ONLY God and He does care, now I know He walks with me day by day.

So the writer of Psalm 119 says with confidence: Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction, oh yes like the writer; I will never forget His precepts, for these give me hope in all aspects of life.

I hope you have life in Christ today; if your life is without Christ then you have NO hope of tomorrow; life for you is temporal. But if you do have life in Christ today, then you KNOW the hope of tomorrow, for your life is eternal. Jesus says in John 14:6 – “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through ME.