Let the Blogging Resume!

Friends in Christ,

My great apologies for the long break in action. Things have been slightly busy this summer, and the blog has suffered for it. However, thanks be to God our lives are not bound to blogs and that we can read, mark, learn and inwardly digest His word apart from the internet!

Remember Psalm 33? That's where we left off. The psalm that calls the nation "blessed" whose God is "The Lord."

Psalm 33 highlights God's work of creation and preservation throughout time. It reveals God's love for us through His creation and shows is ruleing and reigning over the course of history.

In this psalm we learn that God made the heavens, the stars, the waters. Broad expansive things, far above and beyond the ability of man to assemble, things that no mortal would dare to claim as their own work.

This psalm reveals that God is God and we are not. God creates and man merely assembles. God is power, we are not. God controls, God "thwarts", God "sees", God "looks" for God is God over all, even every nation of the earth.

If you are of a nation, a people that does not recognize this, you are to be pitied. However, if you are of a nation, a people that recognizes God as "THE LORD", "I AM WHO I AM" then you are certainly a blessed people. Is the United States a people that recognizes one God, that God being the LORD, Creator of heaven and earth? No.

However, there are some from every "nation" that do. Therefore the blessed nation in our day is not Israel, is not Germany or the United States. The LORD GOD has brought by the mercy of His Son life into every nation, even if that nation is evil, persecuted, poor or dangerous. For the Gospel has been proclaimed and is being proclaimed to every nation under the sun, and there are those in these nations that call upon the name of the LORD and will be saved.

There is no nation that collectively confesses Christ Jesus, THE LORD. By God's grace however, He has made a believing remnant from every continent members of one nation, through the shed blood of His only begotten Son.

Look at the Psalm again. Are you are product of evolution? Chance? Member of a nation because the stork dropped you off? Not quite.

You are the child of the All-Creator God whose name is THE LORD. He purposely made you. He gave you a place in time, and by baptism and faith has secured a nation within which you will dwell eternally.

Blessed are you oh Zion, for your God is THE LORD.