God is Righteous and Just

Verses: Psalms 89: 1 - 52

Song inspired by the chapter:  Song has been uploaded from YouTube.com and is not my original.

My thoughts about the verses:

Our God is righteous and just.  God shows favor to those that love the Heavenly Parent.  At the same time God shows judgment to those that turn away from the Creator.  God judges all on the same level.  No one is better than another person.  The same judgment falls on all people.

The problem that we have is that we often think that we deserve to be on the top.  We are just as guilty of turning away from God as the next person.  Yet, we determine that we are more in line with God than other people.  We therefor judge others and forget to show love and compassion.

God gave us all things on the earth.  Yet, we as humans tend to forget the grace that is given to us.  During our struggles we often forget the power of God.  We turn away from God and try to solve all of our struggles ourselves.  It is in those moments that we miss the fact that God is love and helping us with all things that happen.

The Psalmist extols gratitude to God for the gifts that have been given.  Yet, the psalmist also expresses the need for God in the present situation.  The people have turned away from the One that made them.  God allowed the enemies to come in and destroy all that they have built.  The fact is that God wanted the people to be happy and content.  Yet, the people turned away from God and took matters into their own hands.

See God wanted them to learn that they were chosen.  They could have a good life like they had in the past.  Yet, through their actions and disobedience to God they underwent the judgment of the One who created them.  They were knocked to their knees as a way of realizing what they had done.  In that moment, the people learned that their God was almighty and should be worshipped in all things.  They learned that they should have worshipped God not the things that were given to them.  They learned that they were not perfect.  They learned the power of God’s judgment on all people.

Haven’t we all been there?  We forget to worship God because we are content with what we have.  We look around us and see the gifts yet we do not worship God.  We face struggles and instead of turning it over to God we look away and become disobedient to the Creator.

We have all felt the judgment of God when we do things that are disobedient to God.  We walk in fear because we feel that God has abandoned us.  Yet, what we miss is that it us that ran away from God.  We were doing so good that we attempted to live our life without God in the center.  The day then comes in which we have to realize that we need to turn back to God.

God will save us from our own actions.  God will do what is needed for us to turn back to the One that loves us.  The righteous God can rebuild us if we allow God to take charge.  We have to come to the realization that God needs to be praised for all that is given to us.  When we put the worldly gifts before God we are turning away from the righteous and just God.  We come to those moments when God has to convince us to turn back. 

We come to the conclusion that God is the ultimate lover.  We must learn that grace is there for the taking if we only ask for it.  Our struggles will come less stressful if we allow God to take over.  Our God will rebuild our life and extend the love that we need to survive if we only worship the Savior.  God does not punish us out of hate.  Instead God uses our struggles to draw us closer.  We as humans often have to learn the love of God in our darkest moments.  When God comes into our life and we worship God we will soon learn the strength that comes from the one above.

Prayer:

We praise you God for you hand of justice.  We thank you God for your hand of righteousness.  Help us dear God to not turn away from you.  Use us dear God as an instrument of peace.  Help us remember to always give you the praise.  Help us to never run away from you.  In the name of the Holy One we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you accepted God in your life?  Do you feel the righteous peace that comes from serving God with all of your might?  Are you struggling today?  Have you turned it over to God?  Are you willing today to turn back to God?