Psalm 33

Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous;
it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
Praise the Lord with the harp;
make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully, and shout for joy.

For the word of the Lord is right and true;
he is faithful in all he does.
The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of his unfailing love.

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made,
their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
He gathers the waters of the sea into jars;
he puts the deep into storehouses.
Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all the people of the world revere him.
For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.
The Lord foils the plans of the nations;
he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance.
From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind;
from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth
he who forms the hearts of all,
who considers everything they do.
No king is saved by the size of his army;
no warrior escapes by his great strength.
A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;
despite all its great strength it cannot save.
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,
to deliver them from death
and keep them alive in famine.

We wait in hope for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
In him our hearts rejoice,
for we trust in his holy name.
May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord,
even as we put our hope in you.

This is such a beautiful Psalm.

It starts out by telling us that we need to worship Lord. We need to praise Him in song, joyfully and skillfully, as He deserves the best we have to offer. But why this praise? The psalm goes on to tell us why; For He is righteous and just. And as if that weren’t enough the psalm keeps on going and tells us about His greatness. By a word He made the heavens. He made the entire cosmos by uttering a word. The stars, these great balls of intense fire, were made by His breath. The oceans that we see and feel so small before, He simply puts them into jars. We are to revere this great God of ours! For He spoke and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm. What power is there in this one sentence? He uttered a word and it came into existence, He ordered and it stood firm. What a great God we serve! He makes void the plans of the nations - in light of the financial crisis we are facing these days, I believe it comes from Him, as His plans stand firm for ever. We have strayed so far from Him and His love, that I believe this is one of His last attempts to bring the whole world back to His thrown, before He comes back. He calls the nation blessed that follows Him - today what nation follows Him? What nation is wholly given to Him and His purposes? I think it is safe to say; none. But the Lord is watching us, He knows us inside out as He made our hearts. He loves us so much that He considers everything that we do. No matter what man does to resist, not even a king with his army can resist what the Lord has ordained. God’s eyes are on us who fear Him and hope in His unfailing love. He will deliver us from death and keep us alive during famines.
In light of who God is, this intense being that created everything that we know, that loves us enough to create us, to sustain us, to die for us, what else can we do but to cry out to Him and say that:

We wait in hope for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
In him our hearts rejoice,
for we trust in his holy name.
May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord,
even as we put our hope in you.

AMEN!