“Say among the nations, “‘The LORD reigns.”’ The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the people with equity.”
~ Psalm 96:10
Hi James and Ellen,
Do you enjoy watching a new day being awakened by an array of brilliant, inspiring colors? Do you enjoy observing a day ending with a display of muted, reassuring hues? Do you enjoy looking at the vast multitude of bright pinpoints that fill cloudless, moonless nights and looking at the band of milky whiteness of the Milky Way? Do you enjoy seeing the sudden flashes of lightening streaks and hearing the subsequent booming reverberations as majestic, billowing power clouds march purposely through the sky pouring down water as rain on the thirsty soil of planet Earth? Do you enjoy inspecting the intricate and different bright colors of recently unveiled blossoms? Do you enjoy listening to nightly choruses of croaks and chirps? Do you enjoy hearing water lapping, air moving and birds chatting? How would you like to be like a ripened field of golden wheat that is communicating jubilance for having reproduced itself? How would you like to be like a forest of trees that are conveying hopefulness by sending their branches into the sky? How would you like to be like the cosmos that is causing wonderment by randomly crisscrossing fiery meteorite rocks and blazing cosmic dust through the heavens? How would you like to be like planet Earth with its jutting mountain ranges that are covered with snow that are convening and converging with its jostling ocean reservoirs that are filled with water? How would you like to be like the seas that are judicially using unimaginable power and unremitting energy? Do you just want to join in sometimes with earth’s choirs that exalt life and applaud creation? Do you just want to sit at times quietly and humbly in the presence of the Creator?
A psalm song writer had an epiphany one day. This psalm song writer seems to have seen his world one day through a new lens – a lens that had the psalm song writer wanting to sing a new song to God, a lens that had him wanting guys, gals and kids in every nation and people group praising God and a lens that had him wanting the name of God proclaimed and glorified by every guy, gal and kid alive on planet Earth. A psalm song writer’s call to praise the Lord – Who is God, and to proclaim the Lord’s name is now Psalm 96. This call by a psalm song writer to worship God ascribes to God wonderful glory and awesome strength. The author of this psalm song calls for all guys, gals and kids who are living on planet Earth to worship God – as God the Father – Who is the Lord, in all His holiness and to tremble before God – as God the Father – Who is the Lord, in fear. The author of this psalm song puts down idols as being inanimate gods of nations while he presents God – as God the Father – Who is the Lord, Who made the heavens. As the author of this psalm song scribed his psalm song, this psalm song writer seemed to be basking in the majestic splendor of God’s intimate, righteous presence. Even though the author of this psalm song scribed his psalm song to be sung in the temple of God that was located in the city of Jerusalem by God’s specially chosen guys and gals who were in the Levi tribal clan choir, verse 10 has the psalm song writer baring his heart’s desire, “Say among the nations, “‘The LORD reigns.”’ The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the people with equity.” Why do you think that God – as God the Father, God the Son and God the Spirit, after creating such an unimaginably marvelous universe would want to contaminate what He made with man?
Your grandpaa believes that God knew when He formed the heavens and planet Earth that His role would be negated by guys, gals and kids while they are being introduced to life on planet Earth – that His place as being the One true God would be usurped by idol gods that would be carved into talismans from wood, beaten into statuettes from metals – including gold and silver, and sculpted into images from stone and clay. Idol gods have morphed from once being inanimate objects that were intentionally made to be inhabited by Satan’s minions to today that has guys and gals pursuing as life goals – that are gods, of position, power and prestige, that are being put in place by Satan’s subordinates so that they can fool guys, gals and kids into listening to Satan instead of obeying the expectations of God. Your grandpaa believes that a darker age is being entered into right now. Mistruths are fomenting new kinds of ‘idol’ worship. Doing ‘green’ worshipping in recent years has even been taking over Christ-follower minds. To be a ‘green’ advocate is to say that there is not a divine Creator who can keep creation in balance. Your grandpaa finds it ironic these days to read news reports that are saying that there are places on planet Earth that are now experiencing record breaking cold temperatures while guys such as Al Gore are arguing that a lot more needs to be done to end global warming on planet Earth. A headline that is on today’s Drudge Report says ‘Cyclists ‘braved freezing cold temps’ to promote global warning awareness’. These wacky reactions to global warming – which your grandpaa thinks is ludicrous, are not taking into account the bigger picture of what is happening outside planet Earth’s ozone layer. A study that was done by a Dr. Hackbart reports that ‘periods of solar inactivity known as “solar minimums” magnify cold spells’ in Brazil. Per Dr. Hackbart’s report, August was the first month since 1913 in which there was no sunspot activity recorded and which solar winds were at a 50-year low causing guys, gals and kids who live in Brazil to suffer through a brutal cold snap. If you think that guys, gals and kids can affect planet Earth’s weather without the weather Controller . . . just maybe God is sending sun signals to planet Earth to tell guys and gals to stop idolizing ‘green’. A more insidious veneration today is the adulation of an arrogant guy who has become President.
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