Create in Me a Clean Heart: The 40-Day Challenge (Psalms)Sample

No One Is Equal to God

Psalm 89

What do you think is more beautiful - the view looking up towards the top, or the view from the top of the world? The view looking up towards the top, above which there is nothing more, or the view from the top where all the whiteness of the Himalayas is under our feet and the view is to the edge of the horizon!?

Such a perspective, a picture of God, is offered to us by the author of Psalm 89. Reading the psalm from end to beginning, it seems as if we are ascending to the top of the world. And from the top of the world there is a view like the one described in the first 19 verses.

From the top of the world, man’s admiration evokes the “love” of the one whose name must not even be spoken. “Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.” This love has no time limit and its foundation is at the very top, “in the heavens”. The flag flying at the very top is the flag of the “Covenant”. A covenant between God and man. A promise, an oath given to David, his servant, that he would keep his descendants forever.

A person’s life, more often than not, is marked by views from the foot of the mountains. Pointing upwards, towards the sky “from where our help comes”. Our present situation and the inevitable presence of difficulties and troubles cloud our view. We feel as if God has ‘forgotten’ us, ‘forsaken us’ or ‘left us in the hands of the enemy’.

What to do then? You have to make your way to the very top again. Our lamentations, such as this Psalm 89, don’t disappear. But from the top of the mountain, from God’s perspective, it looks different. More complete, clearer, and further. Above everything and everyone stands “Yahweh-Sabaoth, The Lord of hosts”. Only He deserves to be praised and cheered with the words of a holy song that can be heard to the ends of His earth!!!